Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England, ed. Shurtleff and Pulsifer, vols 1-12 (1855-61)

The printed court orders (vols 1-6), judicial acts (7), vital records and treasury accounts (8), laws (11) and deeds (12) of Plymouth Colony. Volume pairs on archive.org: recordsofcolonyo0102newp, 0304newp, 0506newp, 0708newp, 1112newp. Pages checked against the image are noted where they are quoted.

Entries used for the Freeman-Ellis and Warren lines include:

• The ten men of Saugus allowed to settle Sandwich, 3 Apr 1637 (1:57); Freeman’s terms as Assistant, 1640-1646 (1:140-2:100).
• “John Ellis, of Sandwich, for abuseing himself wth his now wyfe by committing vncleanesse wth her before marryage, is censured to be whipt at publike post, and Elizabeth, his wyfe, to stand by” (4 June 1645, 2:85-86).
• “John Ellis approued by the Court to bee leiftenant” (1653, 3:38); the ordinary licence (1659, 3:161).
• Administration to “Mistris Elizabeth Ellis and Mordica Ellis” on “the estate of John Ellis, Junir, of Sandwich, late deceased,” 7 June 1677 (5:235).
• Elizabeth Ellis, widow, and Joseph Dotey v. Lt. Ephraim Morton over the Sepecan lands, 1680 (7:227-229).
• Benjamin Nye and Katherine Tupper married 19 Oct 1640 (1:153).
• Elizabeth Warren, widow, made a Purchaser in place of her husband, naming “her sonnes in law, Richard Church, Robert Bartlett, and Thomas Little” (7 Mar 1636/7, 1:54); her death, 2 Oct 1673, “aged aboue 90 yeares” (8:35).
• The 1623 land division and 1627 cattle division (12:4-6, 12:12).
• Births and marriages in vol. 8: Rebecca Bartlett and William Harlow, 20 Dec 1649; Sarah Bartlett and Samuel Rider, 23 Dec 1656; the Harlow children; Eleazer Churchill’s birth, 20 Apr 1652 (8:15); John Churchill’s death, 1 Jan 1662/3 (8:23); William Pontus’s death, 9 Feb 1652/3.

Entries used for the Warren, Bartlett, Harlow and Rider families also include:

• Vol. 1: “Mrs Warren & Robt Bartlet mow where they did last yeare” (1 July 1633, 1:15); “a misted that was granted formerly to Richard Warren, deceased,” forfeited “for want of building” and regranted to Ralph Fogg, who was to pay “the widow Warren” for her fence (28 Oct 1633, 1:18); Widow Warren’s servant Thomas Williams, who “neither feared God, nor the diuell” (1635, 1:35); Thomas Clarke’s boat, “lost in ye Eele Riuer … by an extraordinary storme” (1636, 1:36); Samuel Rider among those “pposed to take up their freedome at Yarmouth” (7 Jan 1638/9, 1:108).
• Vol. 3: Robert Bartlett’s petition against those who “pretend themselues to bee the sole and right heires” of the Eel River land, and the court’s finding that Elizabeth Warren “had power soe to doe” (1652, 3:19-20); Samuel Rider Sr. as deputy for Yarmouth (3:23) and on the council of war (3:103); his “affronting the cunstable of Yarmouth” when the constable came “in the name of his highnes the Lord Protector to presse men for an entended expedition” (1654, 3:68-69), his removal from office, and the division of the company over him (1654/5-1655, 3:74, 87, 91); Robert Bartlett “speakeing contemptuously of the ordinance of singing of psalmes” (1660, 3:188).
• Vol. 5: Nathaniel Morton and his wife take Nathaniel Harlow, “being now neare two yeares and an half old” (12 Apr 1667); Sgt. William Harlow among the “psons apointed by the Court to view the Damage done to the Indians by the Horses and Hoggs of the English,” and with Lt. Morton, Joseph Warren and William Clarke to buy “whatsoeuer lands are yett vnpurchased … att Sepecan” (5 June 1671, 5:54); Mary Bartlett’s release of her claim on her mother’s estate, “John Cooke, in the behalfe of all her sisters,” testifying the same (4 Mar 1673/4, 5:139-40).
• Vol. 6: “Serjeant Willm Harlow, Plym, Nathll Southworth, Thomas Faunce” approved as selectmen (2 June 1691, 6:264).
• Vol. 8: the Harlow marriage, “Wiliam Harlow maried vnto Rebekah Bartlet” (20 Dec 1649), and the Rider marriage, “Samuell Rider married to Sarah Bartlett” (23 Dec 1656).
• Vol. 12: “Robt Bartlet one acre” (1623, 12:6); “widow Waren” (12:7); Mrs. Warren’s gift to John Cooke of 18 acres at Eel River “on the North side of Robert Bartletts lott,” land “formerly also giuen the said Robert in Marriage wth Mary another of the said Mrs Warrens daughters” (12:27); her gift to Anthony Snow of “All that her house scituate nere the place called Wellingsly (alias) Hobs Hole wth the eight acrees of land” (9 Jan 1639/40, 12:53-54).

Used for William Macomber: “Wilm Maycumber, of Dorchester, coop, is lycensed to dwell w[ith]in this gou[er]ment, at Plymouth or elsewhere, vpon the testymony of his good behauio’ hee hath brought w[ith] him” (1638, 1:82); his bond of 3 July 1644 to answer for “word[s] spoken against the natiues, tending to the breach of the league betwixt us” (2:74).

Used for the Holbrook, Pierce, Chittenden, Buck, Collier, Prence, Mayo, Howes, Mulford and Bassett families:

• Collier and Prence: “Jobe Cole and Rebecka Colier, Loue Brewster & Sarah Collier” married, June 1634 (1:30-31); “Mr Prence & Mary Collier was maried ye first of Aprill, 1635” (vol. 1); Duxbury lands to go only to “such new commers as Mr Collyer, Mr Partrich, Jonathan Brewster, & Wilim Basset shall approue of to be fitt for their societie” (7 May 1638, 1:84); 30 or 40 acres to William Collier “for his grand child … that grand child whoe is now seruicable vnto him” (2 July 1667, 4:159); administration of “Mr Willam Collyare, deceased” to Thomas Prence, Constant Southworth, Thomas Clarke and Benjamin Bartlett (29 Oct 1671, 5:68).
• Prence’s daughters’ marriages: Rebecca to Edmund Freeman Jr., 22 Apr 1646 (2:98); Mercy to John Freeman and Hannah to Nathaniel Mayo, 13 Feb 1649/50 (8:27); Jane to Mark Snow, 9 Jan 1660/1 (8:28); Judith to Isaac Barker, 28 Dec 1665 (8:30-31). Arthur Howland Jr. fined £5 “for inveigling of Mistris Elizabeth Prence and makeing motion of marriage to her, and prosecuting the same contrary to her parrents likeing” (5 Mar 1666/7, 4:140); his promise to “wholly desist” (2 July 1667, 4:159).
• William Bassett on the 1636 jury that found John Deacon died of “bodily weakenes, caused by long fasting & wearines, by going to & fro, with the extream cold of the season” (1:40). Nathaniel Bassett and Joseph Prior fined for “desturbing the church of Duxburrow on the Lords day” (1651/2, 3:4); Nathaniel’s oath of fidelity at Duxbury, 1657 (8:181); a receipt of 9 May 1656 “of Nathaniell Bassett, of Marshfeild, in a cow and yeerling” (8:212); constable of Yarmouth, 1 June 1675 (5:167); on the coroner’s jury on George More, Oct 1677 (5:250); his suit against Edward Sturgis over marsh hay near “the Prince Feild,” July 1683, and the review of March 1683/4 (7:262-263, 273-275).
• Isaac Buck fined 20s “for refusing to shooe horses which were to be ymployed to carry one of the comissioners to New Hauen on the countryes business,” and, as “the now clarke of the said band,” ordered to make “a publicke acknowledgement therof att the head of the companie” (1655, 3:89-90).
• Isaac Chittenden licensed “to draw and sell wine and liquors and to keep an ordinary in the towne of Scittuate” (1666, 4:117); his complaint of 1673 that twelve men had “in a roietus way” thrown down “a great psell of fence” (5:128); on the council of war, 1671 (5:64); a press master for Scituate with Major Cudworth and Cornet Robert Studson, autumn 1675 (5:183); first signer, “ISACKE CHETTENDEN,” of a Scituate coroner’s jury of “the 29th of July, 1676” (5:225-226); administration of his estate to Martha and Israel Chittenden, 1 Nov 1676 (5:211).
• Michael Pierce: the Court’s answer when Scituate chose him lieutenant, “conserning Mr Peirse, wee haue not to object concerning him but that hee is a stranger to vs” (5 June 1666, 4:127).
• John Holbrook of Scituate fined in June 1679 “for playing att cards once in the woods, himselfe haueing comand there,” with “His man, Patricke,” and for playing “once in Gannetts chamber” and “once in the barne” (6:15-16); a debt case won against him by Capt. John Williams, 1686 (6:199); admitted a freeman, 2 June 1691 (6:262).
• John Mayo of Eastham: whipping of an Indian “for pilfering and stealing sundry thinges from John Mayo, of Eastham” (1662, 4:22); surveyor of highways, 3 June 1656 (3:101); constable, 1 June 1658, “to bee sworne att home” (3:136), and 5 June 1671 (5:57); coroner’s juries of 1667 (4:169-170, 176-177); liquor account of 1664/5 (4:100); the seized mackerel, Oct 1686 (6:203).
• Jeremiah Howes: on a Yarmouth coroner’s jury, 28 Apr 1672 (5:95); selectman and deputy, June 1677 (5:230-232); chosen guardian by his nephew Jonathan Howes, 8 May 1684 (6:134); sued by John Mocoy over a horse (7:153). Thomas Mulford constable of Eastham, June 1677 (5:231).

Used for the Freeman, Ellis, Tupper, Nye, Perry, Pontus, Delano and Howland families (pages as cited in the Freeman-Ellis research; several checked against the image, as noted on the person pages):

• Edmund Freeman: the Sandwich committees answered, 5 June 1638 (1:88-89), and censured, 3 Sept 1639 (1:131); the 1640 meadow division, “Mr Ed Freeman” 42 acres (1:149-150); presented “for lending a gun to an Indian,” 1 Mar 1641/2, with the law of 4 June 1639 (2:36; 11:31-32); fined 18 pence for absence as a deputy, 7 July 1646 (2:104, 106); “Edmond Freeman, Senir, and his wife” presented “for not frequenting the publick worship of God,” 7 Oct 1651 (2:173); Sarah Kerby “found faulty” for speeches against Bourne and Freeman (3:96); the horses in the Indians’ corn at Manomet (1655, 3:89-90; 1664, 4:68); Thomas Greenfield released (6 Dec 1659, 3:178); Tupper’s release “from the begining of the world to this present day” (22 Oct 1656, 5:121); the Scorton Neck suit against Samuel Fuller (1674, 7:192); the London hats and the Champion (12:120-125); Beauchamp’s Scituate land (12:90) and the 1645/6 settlement (12:128-132).
• Edmund Freeman Jr. fined “for refusing to assist Gorge Barlow, the marshall of Sandwich” (3 Oct 1659, 3:173). Edward Perry: Tupper barred from marrying couples (7 Mar 1653/4, 3:47); Perry fined for “refusing to haue his marriage rattifyed before Mr Prence” (6 June 1654, 3:52); for “threatning speeches” to the marshal and “killing a steer belonging to the countrey” (3 Oct 1659, 3:173); his “rayling letter” (1 June 1663, 4:44).
• John Ellis: the warrant for witnesses “in John Ellis & his wifes case” (General Court of 20 Aug 1644, 2:76-77, checked in the archive.org full text); the oil remitted (7 Mar 1659/60, 3:182); to “trayne the milletary company” (1660, 3:189); “for a whale hee had” (1665, 4:99); the Hoskins-Rickard slander (4:111-112); Mayhew’s cow (7 July 1668, 7:146-147); the suit against John Ewen (1669, 7:156-157); the Plymouth-Sandwich bound (5:41); the oxen at Breake Hart Hill (5 July 1670, 5:47). Manoah Ellis fined (July 1679, 8:154). The trial of the Indian James, Lt. Mordecai Ellis a juror (6:82-84; 7:246-249). Matthias Ellis on the grand jury, 2 June 1685 (6:160-169).
• Thomas Tupper: “5 swine vnringed” (vol. 1); presented with “Linceford wyfe” (1 Mar 1641/2, 2:36-37); marriage officer for Sandwich (4 June 1650, 2:155); “shoomaker” (12:138); 120 acres “if hee can find the land” (1667, 4:159). Benjamin Nye: his suit against Thomas Dexter Jr. (1650, 7:51-52); the Newland testimony (13 June 1660, 3:191) and Nye’s defamation suit (7:100); constable 1661 (3:215); the inquest on Thomas Fish (25 Aug 1664, 4:85); the receipt for Sandwich’s war account (2 Feb 1676/7, vol. 5).
• Pontus and Delano: William Pontus on the 1633 freemen’s list (1:4); his relinquished lots at “Thorp, nere Windberry Hill” (5 Mar 1637/8, 1:78-79); the Arthur Peach jury (1638, 1:96-97); the 1662 Namassakett division (4:18-19); Hannah Churchill’s claim (c. 1664, 4:58); Abraham Peirce Jr.’s apology about “young troopers” (1 Oct 1661, 4:7); Philip Delano’s juries (1638, vol. 7; the Soule highway, 1679, vol. 6) and the administration of his estate (7 July 1682, 6:91). Wybra Glass born 9 Aug 1649 (8:7); the inquest on James Glass (3:16). Mary Churchill fined (1671/2, 5:83, 94).
• Isaac Howland sworn constable (3 June 1674, 5:145); his suit against Thomas Joslen and Middleborough’s 10 shillings for “the souldiers for Albany” (vol. 6). John Howland’s death and burial, 23 and 25 Feb 1672/3 (8:34).

Used for the Wrights of Sandwich (October 2026, research/mcmillan/Frost_Underhill_Bowne_Feake.md; vol. 8 at https://archive.org/details/recordsofcolonyo08newp): the 1643 list of Sandwich men able to bear arms, with “Henry Feake,” “Thom Tuper” and “Nicholas Wright,” and on the same list Peter and Anthony Wright, John Ellis and the Freemans (8:192-193); Peter Wright’s son Adam born at Sandwich, 20 March 1650 (8:11).

Used for the Woodworths of Scituate (October 2026, research/mcmillan/Fairchild_Raymond_Woodworth.md): the indictment of Mary Ingham at the court of 6 March 1676/7 (5:223-224), “for that thou, haueing not the feare of God before thyne eyes, hast, by the healp of the diuill, in a way of witchcraft or sorcery, malliciously procured much hurt, mischeiffe, and paine vnto the body of Mehittable Woodworth, the daughter of Walter Woodworth, of Scittuate aforsaid, and some others, and pticularly causing her, the said Mehittable, to fall into violent fitts, and causing great paine vnto seuerall pts of her body att seuerall times, soe as shee, the said Mehittable Woodworth, hath bin almost bereaued of her sences, and hath greatly languished, to her much suffering therby, and the procuring of great greiffe, sorrow, and charge to her parents.” She “was cleared of this inditement in processe of law by a jury of tweluc men,” among them “John Howland” and “Joseph Bartlett”: “The jury brought in not guilty.”