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Winchester Notes
By Mrs. Fanny Winchester Hotchkiss
By Mrs. Fanny Winchester Hotchkiss
[New Haven, CT: The Tuttle, Morehouse
& Taylor Co., 1912], Pages 57-59
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UPHAM LINEAGE
Thomas Croswell married, about 1662, Priscilla Upham, daughter of John Upham and wife Elizabeth Slade. (English Records.)
John Upham, the ancestor, probably, of all families of that name in New England, arrived in America in the company that came with the Rev. Joseph Hull and settled the town of Weymouth. He is on the earliest list of land owners to whom grants were made in Weymouth under the date of 1636, probably copied from the original record, not now in existence. Among these: John Upham, 30 acres. (Sketch of the Town of Weymouth, Mass., from 1622 to 1884, by Gilbert Nash.) And among the earliest settlers of Weymouth are mentioned: William Torrey, John Upham, Enoch Hunt, and Thomas Richards, all as owning land. John Upham was admitted a freeman Sept. 2, 1635, the same year he came to America.
He was Representative of Weymouth 1636, 1637, 1638, and 1639; in 1642 was one of the Commissioners for treating with the Indians in relation to lands in Weymouth; was Selectman; and in 1644, 1645, 1646, and 1647, was one of the Commissioners to end small causes. Between 1648 and 1650 he moved to Malden, about which time that town was granted and a church organized. In Malden he was a Selectman and a Commissioner for settling small causes, and was Deacon of the church more than twenty-four years. He died in Malden, Mass., Feb. 25, 1681. He came from Weymouth, County Dorset, England.
Priscilla Upham, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Slade) Upham, married, about 1662, Thomas Croswell. Their daughter, Naomi Croswell, married Daniel Dana, son of Richard Dana. Their daughter, Hepsibah Dana, married May 8, 1735, Samuel Hastings. Their daughter, Hannah Hastings, married (2d) in 1764, Stephen Winchester, Jr. She was his second wife.
UPHAM LINEAGE
English Ancestry of John Upham
John Upham married (1st) Elizabeth Slade, probably the mother of all his children. She was living (signed a deed) Dec. 2, 1670, but must have died soon afterwards, as John Upham married (2d) in Malden, Aug., 1671, Catherine, widow of Angel Hollard of Boston. A deed of relinquishment to all her property proves this fact.
To prove John Upham’s marriage to Elizabeth Slade, the following from Mr. Upham to Miss Leavitt, Feb., 1905:
“The register of the Church at Bicton shows: Married November 1, 1626, John Upham and Elizabeth Slade. His identity is established by his father’s will of 1635, at Exeter. John Upham was at Exeter a few months before his emigration, as the Parish registers of Holy Trinity of Exeter show the baptism 1634, Sept. 21, of Phineas, the sonne of John and Elizabeth Upham. Burial 1634, Oct. 2, Phineas Upham. Bicton is about eleven miles from Exeter.”
John Upham died in Malden (gravestone), Feb. 26, 1681-2, aged 84, therefore born in 1597-8.
The births of his children are not all recorded. The following is a list of them from various sources:
CHILDREN.
1. Mary Upham, born 1628; married John Whittemore; she died 1677.
2. Elizabeth Upham, born 1630; married Thomas Welsh; she died Jan. 12, 1705.
3. Nathaniel Upham, born 1632, admitted freeman May, 1655, was a minister and preached at Malden. (Roxbury Records.)
4. Phineas Upham, baptized at Holy Trinity, Exeter, England, Sept. 21, 1634; buried Oct. 2, 1634.
5. Hannah Upham.
6. Phineas Upham, born 1635-6; died 1676, aged 41; a Lieutenant in 1675.
7. John Upham, buried in Weymouth, June 5, 1640.
8. Priscilla Upham, born 1642; married about 1662 Thomas Croswell, and died Dec. 8, 1717.
(From Early Settlers of Watertown, Mass., by Henry Bond, M.D.; also N. E. Register for 1847, p. 365.)
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