Benjamin Crispe

b. 1611

Born 1611

Children include Elizabeth

Benjamin Crispe was born about 1611. He was a servant of Major Gibbons in 1630 or 1631, and probably came over with him in 1629. A servant in that sense was bound to work for a master for a term of years, often in return for his passage.

He was a proprietor of Watertown, Massachusetts, by 1636 or 1637, and was admitted a freeman on 6 May 1646. He was a mason by trade. By his wife Bridget he had Elizabeth, born 8 January 1636/7, who married George Lawrence; Mary, born 20 May 1638; Jonathan, born 29 January 1639/40; Eleazer, born 14 January 1641/2; Mehitabel, born 21 January 1645/6; and Zachariah.

In 1666 he and Bridget sold their Watertown house and ninety two acres to Thomas Boyden of Groton, and moved to Groton. His son Jonathan was one of the early proprietors there. Jonathan died young, and his father administered his estate on 25 October 1680.

By 1681 he was back at Watertown. That year the selectmen chose him to keep the meeting house and the pound, where stray animals were held. His son Zachariah was impressed as a soldier about 1673. He married a second wife, Joanna, the widow of William Longley of Groton. His death is not recorded.

Children

Elizabeth Crispe (1636-1681)

Sources

Henry Bond, Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown (Boston, 1860), archive.org genealogiesoffam00bond, p. 188, https://archive.org/details/genealogiesoffam00bond/page/n231

Henry Bond, Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown (Boston, 1860), archive.org genealogiesoffam00bond, pp. 188 and 751 (leaf 231)

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