53 ANCESTORS #10: JOHN: GIDDINGS. OF IPSWICH, MA.

My 9x great grandfather John Giddings was born in England abd became a leading citizen of both Ipswich and the colony. William Richard Cutter give the following information:  

John Giddings, who was born in 1639, had a commonage granted him in 1667; was a commoner in 1678; a lieutenant of militia; and was also a deputy to the General Court in 1683, 1684 and 1685. On Feb. 20, 1690, his estate was inventoried at £269 15s. I0d.; his death took place March 3, 1691, and the estate was partitioned March 29, 1692. After his death his widow, Sarah, married Henry Herrick, of Beverly, and she died in Gloucester. To the marriage of John and Sarah Giddings were born ten children: George, born in 1664, (first) married Mary Skamp and (second) Mrs. Elizabeth Perkins; Elizabeth was first married, Dec. 16, 1685, to Mark Haskell, and later to John Dennison, of Ipswich; Jane married Nov. 26, 1691, Joseph Haradine (she had no children); Sarah, born in 1672, married John Haraden, who died Nov. 11, 1724, the father of several children: John was born in 1665; Job, born in 1677, married Sarah Andrews, became the father of three children, and died Feb. 27, 1708; Solomon, born in 1679, married Margery Goodhue: Joshua, born in 1681, married Abigail, was the father of five children (three of whom died young), and was probably lost at sea in 1716; Thomas, born in 1683, married Sarah Butler; Mary, born in 1686, was married to Benjamin York. -p257

Commemorative Biographical Record of Hartford County, Connecticut: Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, and of Many of the Early Settled Families, Volume 1 J.H. Beers & Co 1901


I'm descended from John's daughter Elizabeth who married Marke Haskell.

53 ANCESTORS #9:GEORGE GIDDINGS. OF IPSWICH, MA. PT2

While I wasn't able to find George Giddinga' will, I was able to find some of the details of his estate in the following transcription on Google Books:

Estate Of George Giddings Of Ipswich.

Administration upon the estate of George Gettings (also, Geddings) was granted 27:4:1676, to Jane, the re1ict, who was ordered to bring in an inventory to the next Salem court.
Salem Quarterly Court Records, vol. 5, leaf 94.

Inventory of the estate of George Giddings, late of Ipswich, taken June 19, 1676 by John Whipple, sr., Henry Benet and Nathaniell Wells: his waring Clothes, wollin & Linon, 7li.; money & platte, 4li. 10s.; housing with Comonidg, 60li.; in the parlor, a beed sted with a fether beed & what belongs to it, 1Hi.; cubbord with drawers, 2li. 10s.; table, two chayers 4 cushins, Hi. 18s.; boxe, one baskit, truncke, 12s.; 6 yds. of Cloth, Hi. 10s.; more of the same, 7s. 6d.; pewter, 4li.; a table cloth & 6 napkins, Hi.; two payer of pillowbeers, two towels, tablecloth, Hi. 6s.; one payer of sheetes, Hi.; fower payer of sheets, small table cloth, Hi. 10s.; 3 payer of pillow beers with other linen, Hi. 10s. 6d.; beedsted with a fetherbeed & three blankits, 7li. 10s.; an old table, one old chest, 5s.; trundle beed with what belongs to it, 21i . 15s.; sheeps wooll, 1401b., 71i.; flax, yerne & flaxe with som tooe, Hi.; old tubes, 2s. 6d.; 10 bush, of Indian Corne, 2 bush of malt, 2li. 3s.; 3 sackes, one bush, of wheat, 12s. 6d.; one sadle and bridle & pilion, Hi. 4s.; tubes & Keelers, Hi.; pailes, trayes, other wood dishis, Hi. 1s.; old Cubbard, 10s.; smalle table & 4 Chayers, 10s.; a Copper, one cetle, 2li. 5s.; two Iron potes, Hi. 7s.; two tramels, two payer of pott hooks, 1Is.; an Iron barr, payer of Andjrons, 16s.; slice, paire of tonges, 4s.; morter & two scillits, 10s.; tin ware, 10s.; one worming pann, one payer of belis, 7s. 6d.; one smothing Iron, with heaters, 3s.; Chespres, 8s.; gridiron, 11s.; two spining wheels with cardes, 11s.; Ches moats & sives & spits, 13s. 6d.; powdering tub, two barrels, 7s. 6d.; a Cherne, a runlit, 7s.; bookes, 2li.; seed plow, 9s.; two Chaines, two yoacks with Irone, 19s.; Cart & wheeles with spanshakle, 2li.; beetle with ringes, 5 wedgis, one axe, 14s.; 9 Cows & 3 hayfers, 36li.; thre two yer old hayfers, 4 oxen, 27li.; one yearling, 6 Calves, 3li. 10s.; 60 sheep, 40 Lames, 27li.; one hors, 3 maares, one year old coult & two foales, 8li.; 6 swine, 4li.; poark, backen & cheese, butter, 3li. 10s.; 152 accers of Land, 760li.; 6 accers of march at Plom iland, 12li.; total, 102Hi. 12s. 6d. Debts owing from the estate, 241i .
Attested 27:4:1676 by Jane, relict and administratrix. Essex County Quarterly Court Files, vol. 25, leaf 49.

For the settlement of the estate of George Gittins, deceased, by agreement of the widow, administratrix and the five sons, it was ordered Sept. 26, 1676, that all the estate be delivered into the hands of the five sons, Thomas, John, James, Samuell and Joseph Gittins, to be divided, Thomas to have a double portion. They were to give security to pay the widow during her 1ife 251i. per annum and her living in the house, with the use of the household stuff, and to pay to their three sisters, Rebecka, Abigaill and Mary, 50li. each, deducting so much as any of them have formerly had as their portion from their father.
Ipswich Quarterly Court Records, vol. 5, page 283.

Agreement of Thomas, John, James and Samuel Giddinge sons of George Giddinge, deceased, that Thomas the eldest son shall have a double portion of the estate of his father together with the land that was formerly given him by his father where he now lives; and they also agree not to sell any of their land from one another and to bear proportionably their part in fencings.
Allowed by the Ipswich court Sept. 26, 1676.
pp63-65

The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts: 1675-1681 (Google eBook) VOL III Essex Institute, Salem, Ma. 1920

53 ANCESTORS #9:GEORGE GIDDINGS. OF IPSWICH, MA.

Turning now to the families of the Haskell wives, I'll begin with Elizabeth (Giddings) Haskell. She was the grandaughter of my 10x great grandfather George Giddings.

George,his wife and their children were part of the Great Migration colonist. passenger on the ship The Planter. William Richard Cutter wrote this about George:

George Giddings, aged twenty, came from England in 1635, and settled in the town of Ipswich, about twenty-five miles from lioston, Massachusetts, with their three servants. They are said to have had as companion on their voyage Sir Henry Vane, fourth governor of Massachusetts. who in 1662 suffered martyrdom for his zeal in the cause of liberty and religion. George Giddings brought with him a letter of recommendation from the rector, or minister, of St. Albans, Hertfordshire. George Giddings was born in 1608, died June I, 1676. He was one of Major Denison’s subscribers in 1640, a commoner in 1641, one of the twenty sworn freeholders who paid the highest rates out of two hundred and thirty in 1664. deputy to the general court in I64I-54—55—59—6I—6364-68-72-75, selectman from 1661 to I675, and for a long time a ruling elder of the first church. The inventory of his estate, June 19, I676, exhibited a total value of 231.021, 12s., of which one hundred and fifty-two acres of land with six acres of marsh, at Plumb Island, was appraised at £772. His widow died March, 1680. Children of George and Jane Giddings: Thomas, born 1638. married (first) Mary Goodhue, (second) Elizabeth ; ]ohn, see forward; James, born 1641, married Elizabeth Andrews; Samuel, born 1645, married (first) Hannah Martin, (second) Elizabeth : Joseph Collins, married Susannah Rindge ; Sarah; married Samuel Pearce; George.
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Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation, Volume 2  Lewis historical Publishing Company, 1911

I've found a record of his estate which I'll discuss in the following post.

MY GREAT MIGRATION ANCESTORS

Okay, so these are the Great Migration ships my ancestors came over in that I know about so far. The Great Migration books were the source and I used Ancestry CustomTags to organize the list. I'll probably be adding more as I find the information.

Passenger on The Abigail
John Endecott
Edmund Freeman

Passenger on The Anne
Robert Bartlett
John Faunce
George Morton
Nicholas Snow
Edward Bangs

Passenger on The Defence
Edward Colborne
Robert Long

Passenger on The Elizabeth
Richard Kimball
Thomas Kimball

Passenger on The Fortune
Edward Bumpas
Robert Cushman
Thomas Cushman
Moses Simmons
John Tuttle

Passenger on The Francis
Thomas Boyden
Richard Holden
Abraham Newell

Passenger on The George Bonaventure
Samuel Skelton

Passenger on The Hercules
Thomas Hayward
Henry Phelps
Nathaniel Tilden

Passenger on The Increase
Joseph Morse

Passenger on the James
John Emery
Ralph Farnham
Richard Knight
Nicholas Holt

Passenger on The Lyon
Isaac Morill
John Perkins

Passenger on The Mary and John
Phillip Fowler
John Maverick
Christopher Osgood
Henry Short

Passenger on The MaryGould
Andrew Hallett

Passenger on The Planter
George Giddings
James Pitney

Passenger on The Returne
John Hardy

Passenger on The Truelove
William Barstow
Ralph Ellingwood