52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2018 WEEK 46 JAMES PITNEY OF MARSHFIELD, MA.

 My 9x great grandfather James Pitney is another of the early settlers of Green Harbor which is now the town of Marshfield, Ma. As is sometimes the caselater generations may have fudged some of the details of his life, or may have just not known about them.

First, here is a brief biography from Marcia Abiah Thomas' book Memorials of Marshfield and Guide Book to Its Localities at Green Harbor;

                                                                           PITNEY.

James Pitney, a freeman of the Colony 1643, was a felt-maker. He had a number of tracts of land granted him in the township; one at Mt. Skirgo, which he sold to Baker and Adams, 1647; another at Green Harbor, sold to James Lindall, 1646. He removed to Boston after 1650. His will is found on the probate records of the Old Colony, of which he appoints his daughter, Sarah Thomas, executrix. It is probable he returned to his daughter's, at Green Harbor, prior to his decease. His wife Sara, aged 22; and his children, Sara, aged 7, and Samuel, aged 1J years; together with Margaret Pitney, probably a sister of James, aged 22; were passengers to New England in the ship Planter. They were from Sudbury, Suffolk County, England. -p48-49

Memorials of Marshfield and Guide Book to Its Localities at Green Harbor    Printed by Dutton and Wentworth, Boston, Ma. 1854 

 Now  that was researched and written in 1854. But research since then has determined that prior to coming to Marshfield in 1643 James Pitney lived in Ipswich, Ma. He arrived in Boston, Ma.in 1635 with his wife and two children before going to Ipswich. On 26 Mar 1640 he and another man  made an agreement with the town to keep a herd of pigs. (This information is from The Great Migration pp473-475) 

Since no mention is made in the Memorials of Marshfield book of any of the Ipswich information I'm thinking  Ms.Thomas wasn't deliberately ignoring it but just didn't know about my ancestor's life before his move to Marshfield. 

 James Pitney died in March 1663. He and his wife Sarah are the third couple from the bottom on this side of the monument to the First Settlers at the Winslow Cemetery in Marshfield, Ma.: