Name origin: Name from a military title.
b.ca.1582; parents ukn
d.March 1674
m.Nov. 22, 1602, Katherine (George) Stevens
CHILDREN included:
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b.bef.June 28, 1606 England; s/o Richard (Hugh) Sargent and Katherien (George) Stevens
chr.June 28, 1606 at Abbey Church, Bath, Somersetshire, England
d.March 1675 Salisbury, MA; bur.April 13, 1675 at "The Ferry" Amesbury, MA
m.(1)1624 at Boston, MA; Judith Perkins [2nd source [The Grantees and Settlement of Hampton N.H., by Victor Channing Sanborn]says m.Elizabeth Perkins 1638 at Agawam, MA]
b.March 3, 1611 Bath, England; d/o John and Judith (Gator) Perkins of Ipswich
m.(2)Sept. 18, 1640 Amesbury; Elizabeth Perkins
m.(3)Sept. 18, 1670 at Amesbury, MA the widow Joanna (Pindor) Rowell
b.d/o Henry Pinder and Mary ______
d.Oct. 1690
Joanna m.(3)Oct. 26, 1676 Richard Currier
CHILDREN of William and Judith/Elizabeth included:
NOTES: Occupation Seaman who also held various town offices.
Elizabeth Perkins came over on the Lyon with her parents and four siblings, reaching Nantucket Island Feb. 5, 1631. The family settled in Boston, MA.
Will of William Sargent ca 1606-1675, as recorded in Edwin Everett Sargent's book, The Sargent Record, self-published in 1899: In the name of God Amen. The 24 day of March 1671/72 I William Sargent of ye town of Emesbury in ye County of Norfolk Massachusetts in Newengland Seaman being in pritty good health of body & of sound and pfect memorie (praise bee given to god for ye same) & knowing ye uncertainty of this life on earth & being Desirous to settle things in order to make this my last will & testiment in manner & form That if to say First & principally I commend my Soule to Allmighty God my Creator assurdely beflieving ye shall receive full pardon & free remission of all my sins & bee saved by ye pecious death & meritte of my blessed Saviour & Redeamer Christ Jesus & my body to ye earth from whence it was taken to bee buried in such Decent & Christian manner as to my Executoed hereafter named shall be thought meete & convenient.
And as touching such wordly estate as ye lord mercy hath lent mee my will & meaning is ye same shall bee imployed & bestowed as hereafter by this will & Testament. Item I give & bequeath to my grand child William Challis five pounds & to my grandchildren Elizabeth, Lydia, Mary & Phillip Watson Challis to each of them Twenty shillings. Item I give & bequeath unto my grand children Dorothie & Elizabeth Colby to each of them twenty shillings. Item I give unto my grand child William Sargent thirty shillings. Item I give and bequeath unto my daughter Elizabeth ye wife of Sam Colby five pounds. Item I give all ye remanyndere of my estate (these my legacies & my funeral charges being first paid) unto my daugher Sarah both howsing and chattles & other moveables what soever always pvided that if she die wth out children that these housing & lands: to bee equally divided; unto my four children hereafter named, i:e: my sons Thomas & William & my daughters mary & Elizabeth. Item I do constiture ordaine & appointe my sone Thomas Sargent my daughter Sarah Sargent Executors unto this my will & testamt & doe make my loving brother in law Tho Bradbury & my esteemed friend Major Pike my overseers to take care that this my will may bee performed according to ye true intente & meaning thereof.
Ane to this my last will & Testament I doe hereunto sess my hand & seale ye day & year above named. William Sargen (Seal) Signed, sealed and thto in ye prfence of Thomas Bradbury, the mark MB Mary Bradbury, John Bradbury. Tho Bradbury & Jno Bradbury testified upon oath yt they say Wm Sargent senr. signe, seale & declare this to bee his will before ye court held at Salifury 13 April 75. Tho Bradbury rec. Entered and Recorded in ye County records for Norfolk (tit 3d pa 6 ye 29th of Aprile 1675) as atteste. Tho Bradbury recr.
FROM Directory of the Ancestral Heads of New England Families 1620-1700, by Holmes: WILLIAM, came from near Bath, Engl, to Ipswich, Mass., 1633; one of the first settlers of Newbury, Mass., 1635; with Rev. Stephen Bachiler, began Hampton, NH, plantation, 1638; removed to Salisbury, Mass., and in 1655 helped in the settlement of Amesbury, Mass.
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b.Apr. 11, 1643 at Amesbury, MA son of William and Elizabeth (Perkins) Sargent
d.Feb. 27, 1706 Amesbury, MA ["New Eng. Marriages Prior to 1700" gives his death as 1726]
m.notm. Sarah Osgood
m.(1/2)March (or Jan.)2, 1668 at Amesbury, MA Rachel Barnes
b.Apr. 30, 1649 (or Feb. 3, 1648) Salisbury, MA d/o William and Rachael (Fitts or Lord) Barnes [second source says d/o Wm and Louisa Mellor]
d.Feb. 7, 1718 Amesbury, MA; bur. in Ferry Cemetery
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NOTES: Thomas was found not guilty of fathering Sarah Osgood's child in Oct. of 1668.
Her child was:
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