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Lt William POMFRET[1]
 Abt 1590 - 1680
 
Birth  Abt 1589/1590  England  
Gender  Male 
Immigrant?  Y 
Immigration Data  24 Oct 1640  from England   [2] 
Military Service?  Y 
Military Desc  Militia 
Occupation  Dover town clerk: Planter, Distiller 
Religion  Puritan 
Died  7 Aug 1680  Dover, Strafford, NH   [3] 
Person ID  I1398  My Genealogy
Last Modified  28 Jun 2010 

Family 1  Hosanna,   b. Abt 1590, London, Middlesex, England ,   d. 1639, Dover, Strafford, NH  
Married  Abt 1614  England  
Children    1. Martha POMFRET,   d. ? 
  2. William POMFRET,   b. Abt 1617, England ,   d. 1680, Dover, Strafford, NH 
> 3. Elizabeth POMFRET,   b. Abt 1620, Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire, England ,   d. May 1687, Dover, Strafford, NH 
 
Family ID  F650  Group Sheet

Family 2  Rose,   d. Aft 1675 
Married  Aft 1640  Dover, Strafford, NH   [4] 
Family ID  F12720  Group Sheet

Lt William in 1640 sent security to George Druell, mariner, of London, for passage of wife Hosanna & daughter Elizabeth.

Lt. William married 2nd Rose who died aft. 1675.

A grant of 200 acres made to William Pomfret in 1656 (Dover Records) was "laid out" on 24 October 1719, one hundred of the acres going to Ephraim Wentworth.

1640 - signed the Dover Combination.
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Was town clerk 1647, many years; d. in Dover, Au 7, 1680. Had many grants, being here in 1639, at least, when he bought of Thomas Johnson. He had a clerkly education, showing elegant penmanship, correct English, and some Latin. Often “Pomfret.” He had, evidently, only two daughters who great to maturity: 1. Elizabeth, m. Thomas Whitehouse, whose son Pomfret Whitehouse inherited. 2. Martha m. William Dam, whose son Pomfret Dam also inherited.
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On 1 March 1650/1, “Anthonie Emerey of Coleharbore in the Province of Maine” sold to William Pomfrett of Dover “all those two houses in Dover late in the tenure & occupation of me the said Anthonie Emerey together with the garden thereunto belonging and also one lot or parel of enclosed ground near adjoining to the siad two houses, containing by estimation three acres & a half.”, , [1, 5, 6]
 

 

Sources  1.[S1] The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, (NEHGS, Boston, MA), 33:97.


2.[S1] The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, (NEHGS, Boston, MA), 111:45.


3.[S1] The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, (NEHGS, Boston, MA), 7:125.


4.[S47] New England Marriages Prior To 1700, Torrey, Clarence Almon, (Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., Baltimore, MD. 1985).


5.[S1] The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, (NEHGS, Boston, MA), 33:93.


6.[S41] The Great Migration Study Project, Anderson, Robert Charles, 442.

 

 

 

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