SYMONDS, Mark

Abt 1584 - 1659  (~ 75 years)

• Name	SYMONDS, Mark  [1, 2]
  Born	Abt 1584	Birch Great, Essex, England
  Gender	Male
  Died	28 Apr 1659	Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts
  Person ID	I3637	Uriah Davis I - Genealogy
  Last Modified	21 Jun 2018

  
  

  Family	JOANNA,   b. Abt 1590, England ,   d. 29 Apr 1666, Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts  (Age ~ 76 years)
  Married	Abt 1619
  Children	1. SYMONDS, Susanna   2. SYMONDS, Mary   3. SYMONDS, Abigail   4. SYMONDS, Pricilla,   b. 1625, Essex, Ipswich, England ,   d. Bef 17 May 1692, Probably Hadley, Hampshire, Massachusetts  (Age < 67 years)
  Last Modified	24 Jun 2018
  Family ID	F1408	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Marke Symonds appeared first in Ipswich about the year 1634, he was freeman the 2 May 1638, and Commoner of the town in 1641. Mark is listed at age 50 years in 1634. In 1641 Robert Andrews, George Giddings, Mark Symonds and Thomas Treadwell are chosen surveyors for this year. At court Held at Salem 2 Feb.1641 Mark Symonds is listed on the Jury. He was also on the Jury of Trials 4 Nov.1645, and the 30 Mar. 1647. Marke Symonds was appointed admr. of the estate of George Abott, late of Rowley in 1647. Mark Symonds was on the Grand Jury the 24 Sept. 1650. His house and twelve acres of land lay on ye common fields on ye north side ye river, and a planting lot at Reedy Marsh. The following is a property transaction from 1658, Marke Symonds of Ipswich for fifty pounds Have Granted unto John Pickard of Rowley his parcell of ground lyeing on the North Syd of the North River at the end of his farme formarly sold to John Crose containeing seaven acres with about halfe an acre bought of Robert Lord having the land of Twyford West toward the Southwest 16 of September 1658 Rec. June 9, 1680. ----- Mark died 28 Apr. 1659, leaving wife Joanna, daughters, Susanna Ayres, Abigail, wife of Robert Pierce, Priscilla, wife of John Warner, and had Mary, wife of Edward Chapman, who died before her father. The last will & testament of Marke Symons. I doe appoynt my beloved wieffe Johannah Symons to be sole executrix I bequethe to my Daughter Susannah Ayres a fether bed & boulster wich was her mothers with ye worst rugg. I bequeathe to Abigaill Pierce a fether bed I bequeathe to John Warner junior one ewe lamb after ye decease of my said wieffe my estate to be equally devided amongst our three daughters & ye children of my daughter Mary Chapman deceased Also I apoynt my loz bretheren Moses Pengrie & Edward Browne to be overseers of this my last will & testament. Dated 25 (2) 1659. Signed in ye presence of George Smith, Aaron Pengry. Proved in Court held at Ipswich 28 April 1659. Inventory taken 16 May 1659 by Robert Lord and Robert Day. Mentions "his dwelling house & barne with the ground about it. 18 acres of Land, 2 acres of meddow at Mr wintrips farme & 1 acre of salt marsh." Amount of estate 257.6.9. ----- I Joana Symonds of Ipswich doe make and ordaine this my last will and Testament And for my outward estate I dispose God haveing given me two daughters which are maryed both and have children my will is equally to dispose of what estate I leave behind unto my said two daughters and their children, i. e., namely unto my daughter Prisilla the wife of John Warner and to her children after her deceasethe one halfe of my estate And to my daughter Abigaill the wife of Robert Pearce the other halfe equally devided I doe apoynt my loveing Sons in law John warner & Robert Pearce to be my executors and doe declare this to be my last will and testament this sixt day of April 1666. In presents of us William Goodhue, Robert Lord. Joana Symonds. Proved in Court at Ipswich the 9th of May (prob. 1666). ----- Inventory taken by Thomas Knoulton Sen. and Robert Lord the 7th of May 1666. . . . wheras there was an estate left by Marke Symonds unto his children after the death of his wife. And by agreemt mutually betweene the widdow & them to alow the widdow a certeine Sum yearly dureing her life and for to devyde the estate presently, and by agreement betweene themselves, the lands with some other small things fell to Edward Chapman (who maryed one of Marke Symonds his daughters) for his part of the estate, And the house being by the consent of all hands put into the hands of John Ayres to make sale of. This therfore wittnesseth that I John Ayres for four score pounds sell unto my Brother Edward Chapman of Ipswich the dwelling house, barne & land about it three acres be it more orless wch was lately Marke Symonds. In wittness whereof 24 November 1659 . John Ayers, John Baker, Robert Lord. Recorded 1st of Aprill 1673. ----- Other Symonds, possibly related, are noted in English records as being in Ipswich in about 1653, (noted in the following): Thomas Harrison of the parish of Dunstans in the east, in London & Dorithy my wife have with one assent ... constituted ... our very loving bretheren Samuel Symonds and William Symonds of Ipswich ... in the parts beyond the seas ... our true & lawful... attorneys joyntly ... sixteenth day of February Anno Dom 1653.

  
  

• Sources

  [S61] Ancient Records of Ipswich, by George A. Schofield. [S62] Essex Ct. Files. (Ipswich Deed II: 10), (Ipswich Deed IV: 340), (Essex: File No. 27116),(Essex: File No. 27088), (Ipswich Deed III: 251)