Ancestors

John Albro

He is identified with the John Aldburgh who embarked in the ship Francis at Ipswich on 30 April 1634, bound for New England, under the care of William Freeborn. The passenger list called him fourteen, which the compiler of the Rhode Island dictionary thought "was not exact but as near as was often the case in making returns to the officials." He came out with no family of his own on the list, and in 1638 he went with Freeborn to Rhode Island. He had a grant of six acres in 1639.

From there the record is a career. Corporal in 1641, and then, in the dictionary's phrase, "rising successively in after years to the office of Lieutenant, Captain and Major." In 1649 he was chosen to view cattle and made clerk of weights and measures. He was a freeman in 1655, commissioner in 1660 and 1661, and assistant every year from 1671 to 1686. In 1670 he and three others lent the colony seven pounds on the town of Portsmouth's account. During King Philip's War he had the care of a barrel of powder for the supply of Portsmouth and sat on the court martial held at Newport in August 1676 for the trial of certain Indians, and when the Assembly wanted the counsel of sixteen judicious inhabitants in the straits of that year, Captain John Albro was one of the sixteen.

In 1679 he helped draw up the colony's letter to the King about Mount Hope and the late war, and was appointed with another man to lay out the western line of the colony. On 9 December 1686 he was a member of Sir Edmund Andros's council and was present at its first meeting in Boston, where the members were sworn to allegiance and to the due administration of justice. He died on 14 December 1712, having outlived his wife by sixteen years.

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Cite: Heirology, "John Albro (d. 1712)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/john-albro-1712-85d225.