Weymouth New England Genealogy

Events

Event	Date	Place	Description	Sources
Occupation			Fisherman, ferryman	1a
Birth	about 1625	perhaps Ipswich, Suffolk, England
Death	between 1687-07-21 and 1690-02-14	Cape Neddick, York, ME		2a
Will	1687-07-21

Families

Family of Stover, Sylvester and Norton, Elizabeth

Married

Wife

Norton, Elizabeth ( * + between 1714-12-07 and 1722-09-04 )

Event	Date	Place	Description	Notes	Sources
Marriage	1652				2a

Children

Name	Birth Date	Death Date
Stover, Josiah	Betw 1660 - 1666	after 1709
Stover, Sarah	about 1650
Stover, Elizabeth	about 1653	after 1737-06-00
Stover, John	about 1653	before 1748-04-12
Stover, Dependence	about 1658	1723-09-25
Stover, George	about 1668	before 1753-04-02
Stover, Deborah	about 1672
Stover, Mary	about 1675
Stover, Hannah	1684-08-17	1731-06-21

Narrative

With partners Ball, Way and Powell had a grant of a neck on thesouth side of Cape Neddick river for a fishing stage 3 Jul 1649.The neck where he dwelt was mentioned in 1650. Grants 1653,1665. Exempted from training as a ferryman in 1661. Absent frommeeting in 1664, he and wife in 1666. Censured in 1673 forover-indulging his daughter. O.A. Mar 1679/80. Lists 273,275-277, 24, 25, 33, 75b. His will was bound to old England, 21Jul 1687 - 14 Feb 1689/90, names with 4 sons, 'the rest of mych.' At York Court on 28 June 1655 "We present Sylvester Stover & hiswife for complaining one of another on a Lord's day in themorning in saying his wife did abuse him & bade him go to ThomasCrockett's to his bastard & carry some bread & cheese, & thesaid wife of Stover said that her husband did commonly call herwhore" He first appears in New England on 13 July 1649, when, withthree other men, he received a grant of land at Cape Neddick,York, consisting of a neck of land on the south side of theriver. Subsequently he acquired all the rights of his associatesin this land, and built a fortified house on it, which he madehis home. In 1653 thirty acres of land were confirmed to him,which had been granted to him some years previously by EdwardGodfrey. He added to his holdings either by grant or purchase,and at the time of his death owned many acres.In his will, dated 21 July 1687 and proved 14 Feb. 1689/90,Sylvester Stover named his wife Elizabeth and his sons John,Dependence, Josiah, and George, and mentioned "the rest of mychildren." He bequeathed to his son Dependence Stover threescoreand ten acres of land where his house was, up the river, in"Cape Nadick," and to his son George "the houses and the rest ofmy land that is not disposed of ... and if my sone John Stoverplease he shall have that Libertie for to change with my sonGeorge Stover for what land and house which he have at cape neckfor that which my sone George Stover have here after the deceaseof my wife." The inventory, as presented by Elizabeth Stover,widow, 17 Feb. 11689/90, showed that the estate was appraised atpounds 731.7s.

Attributes

Type	Value	Notes	Sources
REFN	2806

Pedigree

1. Stover, Sylvester
  1. Norton, Elizabeth

Source References

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Birth Name	Stover, Sylvester
Gender	male
Age at Death	about 62 years, 6 months, 20 days