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"The Eddy Family In America"
Compiled by Ruth Story Devereux Eddy, A.B., A.M.
JOHN EDDY OF TAUNTON AND HIS DESCENDANTS
9276 John Eddy (Parentage not known), d. Nov. 27, 1695, at Taunton, Mass.; m. (1) Nov. 12, 1665, Susannah Paddock of Dartmouth (Taunton, V.R.), who d. Mar 14, 16'70, at Taunton (V.R.). She was the dau. of Robert and Mary Paddock (Austin Gen. Reg., pp. 187-189). He m. (2) May 1, 1672, Deliverance Owen of Braintree, Mass. (Taunton and East Bridgewater, V.R.). She was the dau. of William and Elizabeth (Davis) Owen (Austin, 16o Allied Fam.) and was b. Feb. 15, 1654. Another authority gives the wife of William Owen as a daughter of Charles and Margaret Grice. Deliverance married (2) Nathaniel Smith, who died before 1717. (Taunton Deeds, Vol. XII, p. 202). She died May 3, 1726 at Norton, Mass.
For years Miss Clara Avery, a descendant of John Eddy of Taunton, has searched both in Old England and New England for some clue to the parentage of this John Eddy, but with no success. The compiler also has studied most carefully the early records of Plymouth and of Taunton. Every reference to this john Eddy previous to 16'70 which has been discovered is hereafter recorded. Both Miss Avery and the compiler feel that there is a very close association between the family of John Eddy of Taunton and Samuel Eddy of Plymouth and that John at one time was either a member of Samuel's household or else a very close neighbor.
The first mention in the records of the John Eddy known later as John Eddy of Taunton, carpenter, is as a witness to a deed in which John Eddy of Plymouth, blacksmith, was the grantee. He purchased lands adjoining those of John Eddway (Eddy), carpenter. The deed follows:
1660 PRENCE GOUR
A deed Appointed to bee Recorded
This prsent writing dated August 27 Anno Dom. 1660; between Aron Knapp of Taunton within the Gourment of New Plymouth husbandman on the one pty and John Eedey of Plymouth aforsaid blacksmith on the other pte, Witnesseth that the said Aron Knapp for and in Consideration of a valluable sume in hand payed; hath bargained sold given and granted: and doth by these prsents absolutely clearly and fully bargaine sell give and graunt unto the said John Eedey Ten acrees of land bee it more or lesse Scittuate and lying neare unto the land of Nicholas White in the plantation of Taunton aforsaid bounded by the land of John Eddway Carpenter on the Northwest side; by the Comons on the southeast side; and the Mill River on the end of it.
To have and to hold the said land withall that is properly theron To him the said John Eedey: to him and his heires and assignes forever: To the onely use and behoofe of the said John and of his heires and assignes forever: and the said Aron Knapp doth for him and his heires forever warrant the said land against all men to the said John and his heires.
In Witness whereof the said Aron Knapp hath hereunto sell his hand and seale the day and yeere above written
I John Eedey doe by these prsents make
allis X hoay over this my deed to Daniell Makenny 0f
John Eddway Taunton
The foregoing copy is from Plymouth Colony Records. Vol. 11, Pg. 37. John B. Washburn, Regr. The Plymouth records have two other references to a John Eddy who is not the John Eddy, blacksmith, son of Samuel. John, the blacksmith, went to Marthas Vineyard in the late summer of 166o and remained there the rest of his life, so he cannot be the John of the following records. On July 23, 1661, a jury was summoned "to enquire into the sudden death of John Bond of Plymouth, a servant to George Watson" (Plym. Court Orders). John Eedey was one of the twelve to sign the verdict. Again on Oct. 4, 1664, "James Bell of Taunton was fined 3 sh. 4d. for striking John Eedey" (Court Orders).
These three references prove the presence of John Eddy, the carpenter, in Plymouth, previous to his settlement in Taunton, and his signature as a witness to the deed proves that he was at least an acquaintance, if not a relative, of John Eddy, the blacksmith. He may have been a brother of John, the blacksmith. At this period both in England and in New England, brothers bearing the same name are frequently found. He may have been a half-brother, a son of Samuel, by a wife before Elizabeth, or he may have been a son of that Eddy, who according to Pope (Pioneers of Massachusetts) came from Boxted, Eng., in 1639. It is known that Samuel had a younger brother, Zachariah Eddy, so it is possible that he was the immigrant Eddy of 1639 and John was his son. Perhaps this Eddy of 16.;9 made his home with Samuel or perhaps he did not live long and that is why no trace of him can be found in the records. In this event it is very easy to think of the carpenter, John, as a member of his uncle's family and so at hand when a witness for the deed was needed. It is known that Samuel and Elizabeth apprenticed their son John to Francis and Katherine Goulder and that John Eddy, son of Samuel, learned the trade of a blacksmith. It has always been supposed that the apprentice to the Goulders and the blacksmith were the same person, but if it could be proved that Francis Goulder was a carpenter, then it would follow that it was the other John who had been apprenticed and so the question of the parentage would be settled. Up to the present no record of the trade of Francis Goulder has been found.
A list of those owning land in Taunton in 1643 contains the names of Mr. John Browne, John Gilbert, Jr., Thomas Gilbert, Christopher Thresher, Richard Stacey, William Hailstone, John Macomber, John Browne, William Hodges, Thomas Harvey, Aron Knapp, William Wetherell, and a second list adds Thomas Lincon. There is no Eddy on the list.
How or when John Eddway, carpenter, came into possession of that tract of land in Taunton is not recorded. if a deed or grant of land could be found it might solve the problem of the parentage of John, the carpenter. There can be no question of the fact that there is a very close relationship between the carpenter John and the family of Samuel of Plymouth. The first names of the descendants of John of Taunton are almost identical in the first three or four generations with those of Samuel of Plymouth. Eleazar, Deliverance and Experience, of the Taunton line, do not appear in the Plymouth group, but Samuel, Obadiah, Zachariah, Ebenezer, Jonathan, Joseph, Asa, Nathan, Ephraim, Moses, and Joshua, are characteristic of both.
John Eddy, the carpenter, and Zachariah Eddy, son of Samuel, married sisters. After his marriage to Susannah Paddock, John Eddy went to Taunton and settled on his land there, not far from Scaddings Pond and its outlet, Mill River. He seems to have taken no active part in the town's affairs. In 1675 when a Census was taken to learn the fighting strength of the town at the outbreak of King Philip's War, John Eddy appears as the head of a family.
On Apr, 8, 1682 the military company of Taunton was divided ,,into four squadrons, for the "guidance of members in attendance of meeting on the Lord's Day." The "first Squadron is ordered to bring their arms to meeting the third Sabbath, which will be the sixteenth of this month and ye rest of ye squadron successively..." "the Court Order is that every souldier bring his armes fixed to meeting when it is his turn, with six charges of powder and shot and if any refuse or neglect to performe to be fined, two shillings for every such default and ten shillings if it appear to be in contempt . . . and if any stay from meeting because they will not bring their armes to meeting such to be summoned to court . . . ." In 1691 John Eddy was fined 6 sh. Once during King William's War his horse was impressed for the use of Uriah Leonard, who used it to travel to Little Comp ton, R. I., on an expedition. (NOTE. There is a possibility that John Eddy, son of Obadiah of Middleborough, is the John Eddy of these last two records, but the absence of the word Junior would seem to imply that it was the elder John Eddy who was thus mentioned.)
The Plymouth Records contain this interesting item concerning the pay o f soldiers. (Plym. Rec., Vol. V, p. 236). Constables of Taunton now in being are required by the court that when a p'sell of Iron shall be attached by them for the defraying the rate of the souldier's wages that they require Ensign Leonard or James Lincon to draw it forth into merchantable barrs.
All the other records concerning John Eddy of Taunton pertain to the purchase or sale of land, and to the division of his property after his death. In 166o he was in possession of land at Scadding Meadows, near Aaron Knapp's. On Oct. 13, 1668, he purchased from William Hailstone about 2o acres near the head of Babbit's Brook and bounded by the commons (Vol. 1, p. 276, Bristol Co. Deeds). Ten years later he purchased from William Wetherell more land near his home lying northerly of Scadding, on the west side of Mill River, bounded by Mill River on the east, land of Joseph Grey on the south, by Christopher Thresher on the west and land of Nicholas White on the north (Bristol Co. Deeds, Vol. I, p. 279) and again the same year he purchased from Increase Robinson, "meadow and upland, westerly from the meeting-house at a place called Rumford on the Three Mile River, the upland bounded by a branch of the Three Mile on the west, and land of Christopher Thresher on the north." Four years later on May 2, 1682 he purchased from Benjamin Leonard and wife Sarah more property in this same section, bounded by land of John Eddy on the south side and by John Macomber on the north. This was in the section known as Brown's farm and was the 13th lot in the Rumford Division (Vol. I, p. 277). The next year he added again to these lands by purchase from Thomas Gilbert. The lands adjoined those already in his possession at "Rumford" (Vol. I, p. 279). He purchased also from John Macomber, Sen'r, Mary Evans and Thomas Linkun.
Mill River is the outlet of Scadding Pond, flowing through Whittenton, Brittaniaville and Hopewell. It empties into the Taunton River at the Neck of Land.
In the allotment of lands in the South Purchase there was some trouble, for on Nov. 29, 1672, it is agreed that Joseph Willis, John Eddy and Thomas Armsbee are this day excepted to have a part in the land down the river-Capt. Southworth Purchase. In the list of three days previous, Nov. 26, 1672, John Eddys name was included among the 87 names. Again on Mar. 18, 1683 when another declaratory deed of the 87 men associated in 1672 was made, it is stated that ten men were omitted. One of the ten thus mentioned was John Eddy. (Plym. Col. Rec. Deeds, Vol. V, p. 302 and South Purchase Prop. Rec. Vol. I, p. 15.)
John Eddy died without a will. After his death his property was divided by the court. (See Eddy Bulletin No. 13, p. 184, for the full account.) Those who received shares were the widow, Deliverance Eddy, sons Ebenezer, Eleazer, Joseph, Jonathan, daughters Susannah Eddy, Patience Eddy, Mary Rude, eldest dau.; Mercy Fisher, second dau.; Hannah Eddy. (Bristol Co. Probate, Vol. II, p. 2o.) Another record in Taunton states that "Susannah Durffes, dau. of John Eddy Decd, and wife of John Durffes, relinquished to her mother Deliverance Smith, widow, their share in the homestead of John Eddy, Dec'd." (Deeds Vol. XII, p. 203.)
Children, by first wife; b. in Taunton (V.R. also Plym. VA.): +9277 MARY EDDY, b. Mar. 14, 1666/67.
+9278 JOHN EDDY, b. Jan. 1g, 1670.
Children, by second wife; b. in Taunton +9279 MARCY EDDY, b. July 5, 1673.
+9280 HANNAH EDDY, b. Dec. 6, 1676. +9281 EBENEZER EDDY,. b. May 16, 1679. +9282 ELEAZAR EDDY, b. Oct. 16, 1681. +9283 JOSEPH EDDY, b. Jan. 4, 1683. +9284 JONATHAN EDDY, b. Dec. 15, 1689. +9285 SUSANA EDDY, b. Sept. 18, 1692. +9286 PATIENCE EDDY, b. June 27, 1696 (after her father's death). I found this sight and I thought that the descendants of John Eddy of Taunton would like the information presented. Click here to go to the original web site The links at the bottom of the page will take you off of the Eddy Family Association Page. Thomas Eddy Webmaster of the Eddy Family Association
Origins
The Immigrant
Notable Kin
Sources and Resources
Notes, Questions, Errata
Subsquent Generations
Children and Grandchildren
Kansas Pioneers Lineage
Links
Origins
The origins of John Eddy of Taunton are unknown. (Eddy Genealogy, 1930; Ancestors of American Presidents, 1995, shows UNKNOWN parents for John.) There were two Eddy immigrant brothers, John Eddy of Watertown and Samuel Eddy of Plymouth and Swansea, whose lives and ancestry back to England are very well documented. They were old enough to be father or uncle to John of Taunton. There has been no relationship found between John Eddy of Taunton and these two Eddy brothers, although John Eddy of Taunton married Susanna Padduck, whose sister married one of the sons of Samuel Eddy of Plymouth and Swansea. It is virtually a certainty he is not a son of either of the Eddy brothers, but a kinship of some type may have existed between them. (See Anderson, The Great Migration Begins, 1995, Eddy sketches)
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The Immigrant
Born: Est 1640 - Based on ages of children, born 1667-1696. Spouses:
1) Susanna Paddock/Paddock, November 12, 1665, daughter of William and Mary (____) Paddock of Duxbury, Plymouth Co, Mass. (Savage, Torrey). She was 26 when they married. She had Mary and John, and then died at age 31, on March 14, 1671, probably from complications from the birth of John two months earlier. (Savage)
From East Bridgewater Vital Records, genealogylibrary.com: "EDDY, John of T[aunton] and Susanna Paddock of Dart[mou]th, Nov. 12, 1665,(*) P.R.5. "
2) Deliverance Owen, May 01, 1672, daughter of William and Elizabeth (Davis) Owen, of Braintree, Norfolk Co, Mass. She had eight children with John. He died in 1695, leaving her a widow with at least ten children, including her step-children, aged from one to 29. She married, second, Nathaniel Smith of Weymouth, and died May 03, 1726, in Norton, Bristol Co, Mass.
From East Bridgewater Vital Records, genealogylibrary.com: "EDDY, John and Deliverance Owen of Braintree, May 1, 1672,(*) P.R.5. "
Immigration: Unknown. First appears as an adult in Taunton, Mass. May have been an immigrant, or the son, of an earlier, unidentified, immigrant. If he was a stand-alone immigrant, he likely arrived single and after the Great Migration of 1630-1650. It is interesting to note that there was a Scottish Eddy early in New Jersey. The Scots came over after the Great Migration, as prisoners from the English wars. (See Forbush and Bruce pages at this site.)
Residence: The Eddy Genealogy identifies some records of a John Eddy, which cannot be for John of Martha's Vineyard and thought to be for John of Taunton. So, he was probably in Plymouth first, then moved to Taunton, Mass, where he lived and died. Death: November 27, 1695, (AAP), aged approximately 55. Estate: Inventory of his Estate sworn to by widow Deliverance, Dec. 14, 1695. Aug. 12, 1696. Estate divided, "To Deliverance Eddy, wife, and her son Jonathan and two of her daughters, Susanna and Patience, to Ebenezer, eldest son, Eleazer, second son, Joseph, Mary Reed, [sic: Rood/Ruud per Torrey?] eldest daughter, Mercy Fisher, second daughter, and Hannah." Jonathan Eddy Genealogy, Pg 32 Children Notes: Note that Savage lists four children not in the will: John, Benjamin, Abigail, and Patience (born posthumously). John may have died young. Benjamin and Abigail are names of children of John2, son of Samuel1, of Martha's Vineyard and I think Savage mixed them up. Patience was posthumous, which explains her not being in the will. Since she was born seven months after her father died, he may not even have known his wife was pregnant. See a list of children below.
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Notable Kin
Notable Eddy kin include:
President Millard Fillmore
1 John Eddy 1640 - 1695
*2nd Wife of John Eddy:
.. +Deliverance Owen 1655 - 1726
.... 2 Eleazer Eddy 1681 - 1739
........ +Elizabeth Randall 1673 -
........... 3 Hannah Eddy 1704 -
............... +Robert Millard 1702 - 1784
.................. 4 Abiathar Millard 1744 - 1811
...................... +Tabitha Hopkins 1745 -
........................ 5 Phoebe Millard 1781 - 1831
............................ +Nathaniel Fillmore, Jr. 1771 - 1863
............................... 6 Millard Fillmore, President 1800 - 1874
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Sources and Resources
See the list of items at the Eddy Family Association Resources Page The Eddy Brothers - the "other guys"
It is often informative, and, at times, critical, to be aware of others with the name you are researching, particularly if they are in the same general geographical area as your ancestor. If you are interested in following the Eddy siblings:
The best treatment of them, thus far, is in The Great Migration Begins, Robert Charles Anderson, 1995. Not only are the lives and virtually all known documentation regarding the Eddy brothers is presented, but those of their brother-in-law, (sister Abigail married) John Benjamin, and John2 (Samuel1)'s father-in-law, John Doggett. (Note, another sister came to the New World as well, Ann, md Barnabas Wines, of Southold, Long Island.) The Eddy Genealogy, 1930, is a respected work on this family:
The Doggett English Ancestry Page presents some interesting information on the Doggets.
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Notes, Questions, Errata
How Has John Eddy of Taunton Been Ruled Out as Son of the Eddy Brothers?
Errors in Earlier Genealogies
The genealogy world exploded after the Centennial of America, in 1876, through, and into the 1930's, with published genealogies. Many of them took their seminal information from the Dictionary of New England Settlers, by Savage. His work was monumental and generally accurate. (I use it today.). But, when he made a mistake, it seemed to multiply because so many refer to it, then and now. Thus was the case with the Eddy's. Savage melted John Eddy of Martha's Vineyard, the son of Samuel Eddy, and John Eddy of Taunton into one person. He then gave this person the wives of both men, but seems to have listed John of Taunton's children. This error is rampant in Ancestral File, as their kids seemingly all get mixed up there, too. John Eddy of Taunton, Mass was a separate man from John Eddy, son of Samuel, who lived and died in Martha's Vineyard, Mass. (See TGMB, Eddy Genealogy, Banks work on Martha's Vineyard.)
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Subsquent Generations
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Children and Grandchildren
I have not found an "authoritative" list for the children of John Eddy, other than the eight named in his will. (See above). The others are from Savage and may have died young. Descendants of John Eddy 1 John Eddy 1640 - 1695
.. +Susannah Paddock 1649 - 1671
........... 2 Mary Eddy 1667 -
............... +John Rude 1658 - 1705
........... 2 John Eddy 1671 - 1690
*2nd Wife of John Eddy:
.. +Deliverance Owen 1655 - 1726
........... 2 Mercy Eddy 1673 -
............... +Daniel Fisher 1663 - 1761
........... 2 Hannah Eddy 1676 - 1750
............... +Eliezer Fisher 1673 - 1750
........... 2 Ebenezer Eddy 1679 - 1756
............... +Mary Fisher 1679 - 1720
........... *2nd Wife of Ebenezer Eddy:
............... +Sarah Leonard 1680 -
........... 2 Eleazer Eddy 1681 - 1739
............... +Elizabeth Randall 1673 -
........... *2nd Wife of Eleazer Eddy:
............... +Elizabeth Cobb 1681 -
........... 2 Joseph Eddy 1683 - 1759
............... +Abigail Haskins 1683 -
........... *2nd Wife of Joseph Eddy:
............... +Sarah Leonard 1683 -
........... 2 Jonathan Eddy 1689 - 1745
............... +Deborah Farley 1689 -
........... 2 Susannah Eddy 1692 -
............... +John Durfee 1691 -
........... 2 Patience Eddy 1696 -
............... +William White 1692 -
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Kansas Pioneers Lineage
1 John Eddy 1640 - 1695 b: Abt. 1640 in England or Mass?
*2nd Wife of John Eddy:
.. +Deliverance Owen 1655 - 1726 b: February 15, 1655 in Braintree, Norfolk Co, Mass
. 2 Hannah Eddy 1676 - 1750 b: December 06, 1676 in Taunton, Bristol Co, Mass
..... +Eliezer Fisher 1673 - 1750 b: May 12, 1673 in Taunton, Bristol Co, Mass
.... 3 Nehemiah Fisher 1703 - b: September 03, 1703 in Norton, Bristol Co, Mass
........ +Sarah Morse 1706 - 1744 b: Abt. 1706 in Mass
........ 4 Edmund Fisher 1733 - b: August 21, 1733 in Norton, Bristol Co, Mass
............ +Ruth Willis 1735 - b: Abt. 1735 in Prob Taunton, Bristol Co, Mass ?
........... 5 Nehemiah Fisher, Deacon 1764 - 1846 b: April 23, 1764 in Norton, Bristol Co, Mass
............... +Lucretia Marsh 1764 - 1851 b: October 23, 1764 in Thompson, Killingly, Windham Co, Conn
.............. 6 Nehemiah Willis Fisher 1805 - 1859 b: June 23, 1805 in Marlboro, Windham Co, Vermont
.................. +Abigail Whitney Bruce 1806 - 1884 b: April 02, 1806 in Marlboro, Windham Co, Vermont Gen 7 were Kansas Pioneers, after 200 years of living in New England. See the diary of their trip to Kansas. ................ 7 Eleanor Serepta Fisher 1843 - 1924 b: October 30, 1843 in Marlboro, Windham Co, Vermont
.................... +Henry Gilbert Baldwin 1836 - 1894 b: June 14, 1836 in Dover, Vermont
................ 8 Arthur Willis Baldwin 1876 - 1961 b: Near Ada, Fountain Twp, Ottawa Co, Kans
....................... +Inez Evangeline Hallock 1886 - 1976 b: Near Milo, Lincoln Co, Kans I have ancestries of all the spouses, except for Sarah Morse. I still have not been able to identify her parents. See pages at this site for spouses: Owen, Fisher, Willis, Marsh, Bruce, Baldwin, and Hallock.
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