Weymouth, Robert

Birth Name Weymouth, Robert
Gender male
Age at Death unknown

Events

Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Birth   England  
 
    @N302@
 
Death 1661-12-24    
 

Families

    Family of Weymouth, Robert and , UNNAMED
Unknown Partner , UNNAMED ( * + ... )
  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
Weymouth, Edward1639
    Family of Weymouth, Robert and Emery, Rebecca
Married Wife Emery, Rebecca ( * 1635 + 1719-07-18 )
   
Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Marriage   Portsmouth, Newport, RI  
 
  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
Waymouth, William16501741-04-30
Weymouth, Edward1652
Weymouth, Esther1722

Narrative

The first records we have of a Robert Weymouth are in theCalendar of the Trelaway Plantation, Richmond Island andSpurwink (afterwards Falmouth and now Cape Elizabeth, Maine).Robert Waymouth came in the Hunter in 1634 (List #21, Volume 3,Maine Documents). He signed the submission to Massachusettsdated 16 Nov 1652 (Documentary History pp. 24-25 Vol. 4).Kittery grants 1653. Robert was a fisherman and mariner. Fromthe History of Old Eliot page 47, John Green, legal owner ofFranks Fort (an island in the Piscataqua River near lower MastCove) in 1648, later he received grants up the river in Berwickand moved there. His acres near Mast Cove were divided when thehouse he built and 50 acres went by sale to Robert Weymouth. In1663, described as lying near Franks Fort between the islandland of Richard Rogers and Richard Green, Sr. went to JamesEmery. He and his wife Elizabeth sold it to Stephen Robinson in1663. Joseph Hammond bought it in April 1679 for fourty pounds.This was in Kittery until 1810 when it became Eliot.Robert was administrator to the estate of his brother William.New Hampshire State papers Vol. 40 court records 1640-1692 p.107, 27 Jun 1654. Isles of Shoals, now ME.Robert died intestate, Major Sharpleigh adminstered and hisinventory in 1662 was 60 pounds - 5 shillings.Records state that William was a Cooper, but not clear as tobrother William or son William.

Pedigree

    1. Weymouth, Robert
      1. , UNNAMED
        1. Weymouth, Edward
      2. Emery, Rebecca
        1. Weymouth, Esther
        2. Waymouth, William
        3. Weymouth, Edward