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| 165THOMAS STICKNEY, the fifth son of William and Elizabeth, was born in Rowley, 1, 3, 1646, a twin with Elizabeth [8]. He m. Mehitabel, probably the dau. of Henry Kimball of Wenham. He received in 1665, of the town of Rowley, £2 10s. bounty for killing a wolf. "THOMAS STICKNEY took the oath of Fidelity to this Government and Jurisdiction this day May 25, 1669." [Mass. Col. Rec.] The Town of Rowley "laid out the 10, 12, 1670, to THOMAS STICKNEY as the right of his father William Stickney and the right of William Scales 56 acres of land in Boxford in the North of the highway that goeth to Ipswich, on the West by Deacon Tenney and Samuel Cooper. Laid out more to him, 66 acres on South side Ipswich Road by Sam’l Coopers line from the path South 36 degrees, West to Humphres pond." In 1671 there was granted to him "a piece of land on the Northerly side of his land in Boxford." He was Surveyor of Highways and fences, in Bradford in 1676, ‘77, ‘95. He took the "Oath of Fidelity" in Bradford, Dec. 16, 1678, before Capt. Saltonstall; Dec. 10, 1678, he took the "Oath of Allegiance before Major Gen’ll Denison, Esq." The 8th of 4th month 1684, he was adm. a member of the First Church in Bradford, of which his wife Mehitable became a member Jan. 6, 1711. July 21, 1685, he took the "Freemans Oath." May 8, 1693. THOMAS STICKNEY of Bradford, husbandman for £21 in money and provisions buys of Elizabeth Deane of Salem, widow, relict of George Deane, dec’d, 3 acres of meadow in Boxford, also 10 acres of land in Bradford bounded by land of Ezekiel Mighill on West, North by Merrimack River, S. E. by land of Richard Kimball and country road leads from Bradford to Newbury. [Essex Deeds, 13: 63.] March 2, 1694-5. Mrs. Margaret Corwin of Boston for £10 paid by Zachary Sims, Richard Kimball £15, Thos. Kimball £15, Rich’d Kimball, Jr. £10, John Tenney £5, Phillip Attwood £5, David Kimball £5, THOMAS STICKNEY £5, all of Bradford and £20, of Moses Tyler of Boxford, currant silver, conveys to them in said proportions a parcel of Salt marsh in the Township of Rowley on the Island called Plumb Island, containing 70 or 80 acres. [Ibid, 16: 43.] Sept. 24, 1695. Abraham Haseltine and Elizabeth his wife, Widow Constance More, Benj. Muzzey and Sarah his wife, Amos Marrett and his wife Bethiah, daughters and co-heirs of Richard Langhorn, late of Rowley, dec’d, Plaintiffs: versus, THOMAS STICKNEY of Bradford, Daniel Black of Boxford, Thos. Palmer of Rowley, and Sam’l Cooper of Rowley, Defendants. "In an action of ye case for withholding from ye Plaintiff ye possession of about a hundred acres of areable pasture and meadow land situated in Boxford." The Defendants not appearing the Plaintiffs recovered possession, &c. [Essex Court Rec.] This Indenture made March 31, 1696, witnesseth that Amos Marrett of Cambridge, in N. E., have with consent of Bethiah my wife, for £38, 10s., do discharge, &c., THOMAS STICKNEY, Thos. Palmer, and Sam’l Cooper, their heirs, assigns forever &c., "and sell to the abovesaid a certain parcell of land in Boxford, viz: "all right, title and interest of Richard Longhorne of Rowley, dec’d, in village called Rowley alias Boxford, land still undivided but lyeth together with land of Wm. Stickney, Wm. Tenney, Thos. Palmer, John Burbank, Peter Cooper and Wm. Seales, as will fully appear by the records of Rowley." [Essex Deeds, 24: 193.] March 18, 1700. At a legal town meeting of the inhabitants of Rowley, Lieut. John Dresser, Corp’l Ezekiel Northend and Joseph Boynton, were chosen "to consider the petition of THOMAS STICKNEE, Samuel Cooper and Thos. Palmer, and to relieve them according to their discretion, if there be any Comon to be found belonging to the town on the Southerly side of ye line between Rowley and Boxford." In 1704 he was chosen by the town of Bradford to see that "Rev. Zach. Symms" received proper maintenance for his preaching. In 1706 he was appointed Tythingman. Oct. 18, 1710. "THOMAS STICKNEY and John Hutchins, both of Bradford, husbandmen, for £15 sell Jonathan Kimball of Bradford, an island of Marsh or Meadow, 1 acre called Rose Island lying within bounds of Salisbury, butting on flatts formerly sold to Samuel Fowler of Salisbury, ye meadow our predecessor Eph. Winsley sold to Ensign Stephen Greenleafe of Newbury, . . . . . said island was purchased formerly of Robert Ring of Salisbury." [Essex Deeds, 23: 114.] THOMAS STICKNEY resided in Rowley and in Bradford, where he died. In the old burial ground of Bradford, the gravestones erected to him and his wife are still to be seen bearing these inscriptions:- "THOMAS STICKNEY, A man of Piety in his life, died July 17, 1714, Æ. 68." "Mehitable, wife of THOMAS STICKNEY, died Dec. 7, 1689, Æ. 31." This stone is the most ancient in the ground. Sept. 6, 1714. Adm. on the estate of THOMAS STICKNEY, late of Bradford dec’d, intestate, granted to "his only child Mehitable Stickney." [Essex Prob., 11: 86.] | ||||||||||
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