John Otis was born in 1581 in Glastonbury, Somerset, Eng. [223] and died on 31 May 1657 in Weymouth, MA. [87]

Married:

1. abt 1603 in Glastonbury, Somerset, England to Margaret ???. She died on 28 Jun 1653 in Hingham, MA.[87]
2. abt 1654 in Hingham, MA to Elizabeth ???, widow of ??? Streame, with whom she had had two children (Thomas and Benjamin Streame). Elizabeth died in 1672/1676. [87][fn1][fn2]

Children of John Otis and Margaret include:

1. Alicia Otis (ca 1604-aft 1657)
2. Joan Otis (Died soon) (ca 1610-1611)
3. Joan Otis (ca 1612-aft 1657)
4. Elizabeth Otis (Died soon) (ca 1614-1615)
5. Richard Otis (ca 1616-)
6. Hannah Otis (ca 1618-25 Jan 1675/6)
7. John Otis (ca 1621-16 Jan 1684)
8. Margaret Otis (ca 1619-21 Oct 1670)

Weary-All-Hill

• From William A. Otis’s Memoir of the Otis Family [223]:

'The remembrance of the original Glastonbury home of John was most curiously kept alive and perpetuated by him in the quaint hame he gave to this ground--Weary-All-Hill. Possibly its shape or location, or some other feature of his new possession, reminded him of one well-known and loved hill in his boyhood home, for its name certainly was no newly invented one, with a more local significance, as some historians would say, but assuredly goes back to England and to Glastonbury town.’

Notes

Oattis is one of the original spellings of this name.

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1630- Probably came to New England late in this year and settled in hingham, MA..

1635, March 3- Admiited freeman of the colony of Massachusetts Bay.

His place of residence was at Otis Hill, southwest of the harbor.

1646, March 15- His house is burned to the ground.

Siblings: Stephen, Thomas, and two sisters. -------------------- See other entry for more information. -------------------- Of Glastonbury, Somerset, England.

Sources

• http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr02/rr02_056.htm#P15

Citations

• 223. William A. Otis, A Memoir of the Otis Family, Winnetka, Ill, 1924.
• 87. George Walter Chamberlain, History of Weymouth, Boston, 1923.

Footnotes

• 1. From William A. Otis’s Memoir of the Otis Family [223]:

“After his first wife’s death, he moved shortly to Weymouth, where he married again, his bride being Elizabeth Streame, who, according to the Genealogical Dirctionary of Rhode Island, died in 1676. He lived at Weymouth until the time of his death, May 31, 1657, which is recorded in Hobart’s journal with the statement athe he was seventy-six years old, thus corroborating the year of his birth as 1581. It appears that his wife, at the time of her marriage, was a widow with two children, Thomas and Benjamin Streame, and that she survived John at least several years; since five years later, on the death of the former son, she was appointed administratrix, as noted in the New England Gen. Reg., Vol. XI, pg. 173:--‘Thomas Streame, 1st, July, 1662, ...’”

• 2. Elizabeth’s surname is sometimes given as Whitman, and her father either Richard or John Whitman, all without reference. (Payne-Joyce Genealogy)