Walter Tybbot

1584-1651 · Gloucester MA

Born 1584

Died 1651

Children include Mary

Born in 1584, and came to Gloucester in the company of the Rev. Richard Blynman, the Welsh minister who brought a party up from Plymouth Colony to Cape Ann. At a court held at Plymouth on 2 March 1641, Blynman, Hugh Pritchard, Obadiah Bruen, John Sadler, Hugh Caulkin and Walter Tybbot were propounded to be made free at the next court.

He was admitted a freeman in 1642 and was a selectman that year and in several of the years after it. In 1647 the town licensed him to draw wine and exempted him from common training, which at sixty three was an old man being excused from drill and given the tavern instead.

The records do not say where in the town he lived, though one entry places a neighbour's house between Bourne and Tybbot, and they show that he was one of the largest landowners in the place. He farmed. The town's historian, looking at the inventory of his estate, wrote that he did not cultivate our unpromising soil in vain.

He died on 14 August 1651, aged sixty seven, leaving a widow. His daughter Mary's marriage to William Haskell produced, in the same historian's phrase, descendants who are numerous; a second daughter, Agnes, was the wife of Edward Clark.

Children

Mary Tybbot (d. 1693)

Sources

Surveyed and drawn by John Mason, 1831, from the Digital Commonwealth, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.

John J. Babson, History of the Town of Gloucester, Cape Ann, including the town of Rockport (1860), early settlers, under Tybbot; Ulysses G. Haskell, A Short Account of the Descendants of William Haskell of Gloucester, Mass. (Essex Institute Historical Collections, vol. 32, 1896) for the Haskell marriage

Vital Records of Gloucester, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849, volume 2, marriages (1917)

James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England (Boston, 1862), vol. IV, under TIBBETS, TYBBOT or TEBBETS

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