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Captain William Symmes

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England (United Kingdom)
Death: September 22, 1691 (65)
Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America
Immediate Family:

Son of Rev. Zechariah Symmes and Sarah Symmes
Husband of Mrs Mary Symmes and Mercy Torrey
Father of Sarah Sparhawk Fiske; Mary Torrey; William Symmes; Timothy Symmes, Sr.; Elizabeth Torrey and 2 others
Brother of Rebecca Symmes (died young); Sarah Brock; Mary Stoddard; Elizabeth Usher; Huldah Davis and 6 others

Managed by: Todd A. O'Brien
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About Captain William Symmes


https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/143809241/william-symmes

Wife #1 Sarah Sparhawk

Wife #2 Mary Chickering

From Find a Grave:

William Symmes was born in January of 1627 and baptized in the Priory Church of St. Peter in Dunstable, Bedfordshire on January 10. He was the oldest son of Zachariah and Sarah Baker Symmes. When he was seven years old, the family came to New England and settled in Charlestown, Massachusetts, where his father became the minister of the First Church. William married Mary Sparhawk, the daughter of Nathaniel and Mary Sparhawk of Cambridge, about 1650. William and Mary had at least one child, a daughter named Sarah. They may have had more children. Mary died about 1674. William married again, Mary Chickering, and had more children. William died in Charlestown on September 22, 1691, his place of burial is unknown.

Source notes

Passengers on the Griffin: Arrived at Boston September 18, 1634

Rev. Zachariah Symmes of Canterbury, Co. Kent
Mrs. Sarah Symmes
William Symmes
Mary Symmes
Elizabeth Symmes
Huldah Symmes
Hannah Symmes
Rebecca Symmes [9]

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Captain William Symmes's Timeline

1626
January 10, 1626
Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England (United Kingdom)
1627
January 10, 1627
Age 1
Dunstable,Bedford,England
1652
1652
Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, British Colonial America
1676
1676
Charlestown, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America
1678
1678
Charlestown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
1683
January 1, 1683
Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States
1685
1685
Weymouth, Suffolk County (Present Norfolk County), Massachusetts Bay Colony, (Present USA)
1687
1687
1689
1689