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| Notes for Moses SIMMONS | ||||||||||||||
| Moses was a member of the Dutch Reform Church of Leyden, Holland and arrived on the ship Fortune at Plymouth, MA on 9 Nov 1621. He was given 40 acres as a single person in 1627, also a purchaser of cattle, 2 She goats and cow and was admitted a freeman in 1637. From Carolyn Simmons Tschudi: The father of our SIMMONS Family in America was Moyses SYMONSON. He came to America on the Ship Fortune, arriving at Plymouth Rock on November 9, 1621. There were 35 passengers on board, he being the 27th. His father, Willen Simmonszoon, born about 1575, and mother Ann, born about 1580, stayed in Leyden, Holland. He was a member of the Dutch Reform Church. Moses was born in 1602, and was nineteen when he arrived here in Plymouth Colony. He was called a French Wallon inthe book, "Saints and Strangers". His friend who he came with on the Fortune was Philip de la Noye. According to the reference from "Pilgrim Fathers", by E. Arber, pages 155, 156 and 159, Willem Simmonszoon lived near the church in Leyden. He purchased on the east side, a certain small room from John de Lalaing in Bell Alley, Leyden, on 26 May 1611. This being near Pieters Kerch (St. Peter's Church). The other owners of said house are Jan Robinson, William Jepson, Henry Wood, and Ravnulp (Ralph) Tickens, is known as Groene Port (Green Gate). The pilgrims of Plymouth had a very difficult winter in 1620, amny of them died that first year. Of the 104 who came to Plymouth, only 51 were survivors when the Fortune came the following year. Moses was given 40 acres as a single person in 1627 at Plymouth. He married Sarah in 1632. They lived in Plymouth, Bridgewater and Duxbury, MA. He died in Duxbury in September 1691. This is a copy of the will Moses Simmons of Sept. 1691 at Duxbury, MA., it is written in his language: "THE LAST WILL AND TESTEMENT OF MOSES SIMMONS" I, being aged and full of decaye, but in right and perfect understanding and not knowing the day of my death, do will that my estate shall thus be disposed of after my decease; in the name of God Amen. Item 1-I do will and bequeath my body to the grave, and that it be decently buried and funeral charges defrayed out of my estate before any legacie. And my Soule to God that gave it to me whome I trust hath redeemed it. Item 2 - I do will that all my personall debts be paid out of my personall estate. Item 3 - I will and bequeath to my daughter Mary, the wife of Joseph Alden, Four pounds. Item 4 - I will and bequeath to my son Aaron, Four pounds. Item 5 - I do will and bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth, now the wife of Richard Dwelly, Five shillings. Item 6 - I do will and bequeath to my daughter Sarah, now the wife of James Nash, Two pounds, Ten shillings, of which the said James Nash hath Two pounds, Five shillings in his hand already. Item 7 - I do will and bequeath to my son John, Four Pounds. Item 8 - I do will, constitute ordaine and appoint my son John to be executor of this will and testament. So desireing that all my children may be at peace after my decease I do these presents set my hand and seal this seventeenth day of June in the year of our Lord God, One Thousand Six Hundred Eighty and Nine. In presence of Benjamin Chandler The mark M of David Alden Seal Thomas Delano Moses Simmons Inventory of the estate of Moses Simmons late of Duxbury taken September 15th 1691, Amount of '#53, 11 Shillings, presented at Court by John Simmons, Son of deceased, Sept. 15th, 1691. David Alden and Thomas Delano, two of the witnesses here named made oath before the county Court of Plymouth Sept. 15th, 1691 that they were presents and saw the above named Moses Simmons signe, seal and heard him declare the above written to be his last will, and, that to the best of their judgement, he was of disposing mind and memory when he so did. attest Sam Sprague cler. Moses Simmons (II) son of Moses (1) was not mentioned in his Fathers will, probably because he died in March, 1676 about 15 years before his Father. A true copy from the Plymouth County Probate Records, Vol. I, Page 106. Attest: Sumner A chapman, register. | ||||||||||||||
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| Robert Charles Anderson ("The Great Migration Begins", 1996): On 20 Apr 1669 Moses Simons of Duxbury deeded to "John Simons his true and natural son" his dwelling house, buildings, uplands and meadows in Duxbury; on 30 Dec 1674 Moses Simons of Duxbury, yeoman, "in consideration of a marriage heretofore consummated between John Soule of Duxbury and my eldest daughter Rebeckah" deeded to them "all my purchased lands at Namaskett"; on 4 Dec 1678 "moses Simons Senior" of Duxbury, yeoman, deeded to "my son Aron Simmons" of Scituate "all that my one-half share of land, with upland and meadow lands divided and undivided...that I have as a purchaser or old comer" in Dartmouth. Moses wife Sarah (---) was alive in 1673, when Richard Sutton brought suit against her and Moses, but she is apparently not mentioned in Moses 1689 will. | ||||||||||||||
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| Sarah Chandler? | ||||||||||||||
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