Ancestors

Edward Bangs

He came in the Anne in 1623, the same ship as Francis Sprague, into the same hungry summer, and the county history says he was from Chichester. What he is remembered for is a piece of work: he superintended the building of the first vessel launched at Plymouth, a bark of forty or fifty tons. The colony granted him fourscore acres for it, on condition that he contribute a fifth part toward the cost of the vessel he was building.

He married twice. His first wife was Lydia Hicks, whose family had come over in the Anne with him. They married by about 1633, and she died within a year or two, after the birth of their son John. By about 1635 he had married Rebecca, whose surname is not known. She was the mother of the rest of his children, and in a deed of 22 June 1651 she joined him as "his wife Rebecca."

He was largely engaged in merchandise, was a deputy several years, and went out to Eastham with the Plymouth men who settled it in 1644. He died in the winter of 1677/8 at eighty six, having had ten children in Plymouth and Eastham, all of whom lived to grow up.

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Cite: Heirology, "Edward Bangs (1591-1677)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/edward-bangs-1591-1677-0b5bd6.