The WATERS Family of Lancaster, Worcestor, MA and Charlestown, Suffolk, MA

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LAWRENCE WATERS (abt 1602 - 1687) of Lancaster and Charlestown

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Lawrence Waters was born about 1602. He died in Charlestown on 9 Dec 1687. [Ref][Ref at age about 85]. He married Anne Linton. [Ref]

He was a carpenter in Watertown. [Ref]

Lawrence was an early inhabitant of Lancaster, signing the town covenant on 15 (1) 1653. [Ref] He was one of the 13 inhabitants of Lancaster who signed an agreement with John Prescott for the building of the first corn mill in Lancaster. [Ref] He was one of 11 Lancaster men who petitioned the General Court in (probably) 1654 for Lancaster to have a similar governance to other towns and requested that the Court appoint a man or men to lay out town boundaries. [Ref] After the original division of land in Lancaster, further divisions were contingent on estate size. In 1654 estates were valued and Lawrence's - at about £277 - was the sixth largest of the 30 eligible inhabitants. [Ref] He was given about 11 acres of meadow in 1654. [Ref] At a town meeting on 1 (9) 1654 it was agreed to limit the town to 35 families and 25 men were listed as townsman, one of whom was Lawrence's. [Ref] At a 25 Apr 1656 town meeting Lawrence was given four additional acres of meadow. [Ref] He received the 31st lot in the second division of meadow on 5 Feb 1659. [Ref] In Oct 1662 the Middlesex Court released Lawrence from all ordinary military training; he was to pay 5 shillings a year. [Ref] He was a freeman in 1662. [Ref] After the massacre of 1675, he, his wife Anne, son Samuel and Samuel's wife and two children took refuge in Charlestown. A Lawrence Waters is on a 28 May 1684 Lancaster tax list. [Ref] His son Stephen was responsible to the authorities for them in 1676; Lawrence was then blind. A Lawrence Waters is on a 28 May 1684 Lancaster tax list. [Ref] A Lawrence Waters is on a 28 May 1684 Lancaster tax list. [Ref]

Children of Lawrence Waters and Anne Linton:

  1. Lawrence Waters was born on 14 (12) 1635 in Watertown. [Ref]
  2. Sarah Waters was born on 7 (10) 1636 in Watertown. [Ref] She married John Skeath, a cordwainer of Boston. [Ref] On 27 (11) 1656 Sarah, age 20, testified against Mary, the daughter of Stephen Gates, who was charged with behaving improperly toward Master Rowlandson in the assembly on the Lord's day. [Ref] Her son Samuel was probably killed by Indians in 1704. [Ref]
  3. Mary Waters was born on 27 (11) 1637 in Watertown. [Ref] She married Samuel Davis in 1656. [Ref] She had a daughter in Lancaster on 26 (11) 1657. [Ref]
  4. Rebecca Waters was born in (12) 1639 and buried on 1 (1) 1640 in Watertown. [Ref]
  5. Rebecca Waters was born in Feb 1640 in Watertown. She married Josiah Whitcomb.
  6. Daniel Waters was born on 6 (12) 1641 in Watertown. [Ref]
  7. Stephen Waters was born on 24 Jan 1643 in Watertown. [Ref][Ref]
  8. Adam Waters was born in 1645 [?] in Lancaster; he was perhaps the first white child born there. [Ref] He died in 1670. [Ref] He bought John Smith's dwelling house in Lancaster on 18 Mar 1670. [Ref]
  9. Joseph Waters was born on 29 (2) 1647 in Lancaster. [Ref] He married Elizabeth Unknown and had a child born in Lancaster on 11 Aug 1679. [Ref] He returned to Lancaster in 1679. [Ref] On 7 Apr 1683 he was on a jury of inquest investigating the untimely death of John, son of John Whitcomb. [Ref]
  10. Jacob Waters was born on 1 (1) 1649 in Lancaster. [Ref]
  11. Rachel Waters was born on 1 (1) 1649 in Lancaster. [Ref] She died there on 31 (1) 1649. [Ref]
  12. Samuel Waters was born on 4 (11) 1651 in Lancaster. [Ref] He married Mary Unknown on 21 (1) 1672 in Lancaster. [Ref]
  13. Joanna Waters was born on 21 (1) 1653 in Lancaster. [Ref] She died there on 21 (2) 1654. [Ref]
  14. Ephraim Waters was born on 27 (11) 1655 in Lancaster. [Ref] He died there on 17 (4) 1659. [Ref]

REBECCA WATERS (b. 1640)

Parents: Lawrence Waters and Anne Linton

Rebecca Waters was born in 1640 in Watertown. [Ref] She married Josiah Whitcomb on 4 (11) 1664 in Lancaster. [Ref]