Edward Southworth

1590-1621 · Leiden, Holland → London, England

Born 1590, in England

Died 1621

Children include Constant

He first appears at Leiden on 13 November 1610 as a witness, described only as from England. A year later he stood for Isaac Allerton at his betrothal to Mary Norris, and in 1613 he did the same office for Samuel Fuller, who was marrying Agnes Carpenter. At that betrothal one of the witnesses for the bride was her sister Alice.

On 4 May 1613 he registered his own. The Leiden clerk wrote him down as Eduwaert Sodtwaert, born in England, a bachelor, by trade a saeijwercker, which is a say weaver: say was the light worsted that went into bedding and table linen. He was assisted by Tomas Sodtwaert, entered as his brother, by S. Fuller, entered as his brother in law, and by Rogier Wilson, an acquaintance. The bride was Els Carpenter, born in England, a maid, assisted by Anna Ras and Elizabeth Gennings. They were married on 28 May. Two sons followed at Leiden, Constant and Thomas.

He did not sail in 1620 and neither did his wife. The last document that has him alive is a letter Robert Cushman wrote from Dartmouth on 17 August 1620, while the Speedwell was being trimmed and already failing, and addressed to his loving friend Ed. S. at Heneage House in the Duke Place, London. In it Cushman wrote that an infirmity of the body had seized him which would not leave him till death, and he did not know what to call it, but it was a bundle of lead, as it were crushing his heart.

Edward Southworth was dead by about 1621. His widow came out in the Anne in 1623 and married the governor of the colony within a few weeks of landing, and his two boys followed in 1628.

His parentage is not established, and two English families have been proposed for him.

Children

Constant Southworth (1615-1679)

Sources

Samuel G. Webber, A Genealogy of the Southworths (Southards), Descendants of Constant Southworth (Boston, 1905), p. 2 · archive.org southworthgeneal00slsn, leaf 19

Justin Winsor, History of the Town of Duxbury, Massachusetts, with Genealogical Registers (Boston, 1849), p. 316 · archive.org historyoftownofd00wins, leaf 325

Samuel G. Webber, A Genealogy of the Southworths (Boston, 1905), pp. 11 to 12, from the Plymouth Colony records · archive.org southworthgeneal00slsn, leaves 28 and 29

W. A. Abram, ed., The Rolls of Burgesses at the Guild Merchant of the Borough of Preston, co. Lancaster, 1397-1682 (Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 1884), pp. 55 and 39 · archive.org rollsburgessesa00langoog, leaves 113 and 97

George W. Marshall, ed., The Visitations of the County of Nottingham in the Years 1569 and 1614 (Harleian Society, vol. IV, 1871), p. 114 · archive.org visitationsofcou04flow, leaf 131

Samuel Pearce May, The Descendants of Richard Sares (Sears) of Yarmouth, Mass., 1638-1888 (Albany, 1890), pp. 18 to 19 · archive.org descendantsofric00mays, leaves 37 and 38

Samuel G. Webber, A Genealogy of the Southworths (Boston, 1905), chapter I, printing the Leiden Raadhuis inteekenregister and Cushman's letter as Bradford preserved it

W. A. Abram, ed., The Rolls of Burgesses at the Guild Merchant of the Borough of Preston, co. Lancaster, 1397 to 1682 (Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 1884), the rolls of 1582 and 1602

George W. Marshall, ed., The Visitations of the County of Nottingham in the Years 1569 and 1614 (Harleian Society, 1871), p. 114, SOUTHWORTH

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