Judith Preble

Children of Abraham and Judith Preble :—

• 2- 1. Abraham, b. 1642; m. Hannah Kelley, 1685; d. Oct. 14, 1704.
• 3- 2. Rachel, b. 1643; m. Joseph Carline, March 28,1659; d. .
• 4- 3. Joseph, b. ;m. and had son Joseph, b. 1691.
• 5- 4. Stephen, b. ;m. Rachel, .daughter of John Main; d. in 1696. His widow m. Joseph Carlisle in 1697.
• 6- 5. Nathaniel, b. 1648.
• 7- 6. John, b. ;m. Hannah ;d. . His widow d. Aug. 19, 1695.
• 8- 7. Benjamin, b. ;m. Mary ; d. March 25, 1732.
• 9- 8. Sarah, b. ;m. Henry Coombs; d. Oct. 25, 1724.
• 10-9. Mary, b.; d. unmarried.

Notes

emigrated 5 Mar 1634, Sandwich, England, age: 13

From Genealogical Sketch of the First Three Generations of Prebles in America: With an Account of Abraham Preble the Emigrant, Their Common Ancestor, and of His Grandson Brigadier General Jedediah Preble, and His Descendants (Google eBook) George Henry Preble. family circulation, D. Clapp and Son, 1868 - Portland (Me.) - 336 pages

Elder Nathaniel Tilden, son of Joseph Tilden, one of the merchant adventurers, came first from England about 1628. The first records of Scituate relate to his purchase of land that year from Hy. Merritt, and which was bounded in part by land already owned by him. He must, however, have returned to England, for in March, 1634, wc find Nath'l Tilden, yeoman, of Tenderden in Kent, embarking at Sandwich, a passenger in the ship Hercule, 200 tons, John Witherly, master, with Lydia his wife, seven children and seven servants. He was chosen Ruling Elder over the first church in Scituate the same year. He died 1641, and in bis will, dated May 25, bequeaths —

"To Lydia my wife the Income of my stone house with the lands in Tenderden in Kent in which Richard Lambeth now dwells." To son Joseph a double portion, that is as much as both Thomas and Stephen, in land, house, &c, in Scituate and Marshficld. To Lydia and Stephen, his youngest children, "a maintenance until 21." To Judith a cow. To Mary and Sarah 10 shillings each. He was the first person who kept bees in the Colony.

His widow married Timothy Hatherly, Esq., who died in 1664. She appears to have survived her second husband, as he bequeaths property to his " wife Lydia" in his will.

Abraham Preble came over from England with the "Men of Kent,"* and settled, somewhere about the year 1636, in Scituate, Plymouth Colony. ... Abraham Preble was one of the earliest settlers of Scituate, and very soon after his arrival was married to Judith, the third daughter of Elder Nathaniel Tilden, the descendant of a very ancient family in the County of Kent, England. His ancestry is traced in Berry's County Genealogies to a William Tylden, who paid aid for lands in Kent at the time of making the Black Prince a Knight.

After his marriage, Abraham Preble removed to York, or Gorgiana, as it was then called, in the Province of Maine, where, in 1642, he purchased a tract of land of Edward Godfrey. In the deed they are both styled of Agamenticus. York was incorporated as a city by Sir Ferdinando Gorges in 1641, by the name of Agamenticus, and the following year the name was changed to Gorgiana. This was the first city government established in New England, and Thomas Gorges was appointed the first Mayor under the charter.

Closing this life of usefulness, he died in 1663, probably about the 30th of March, when an inventory was taken of his estate. At a Court held at York, July 7, 1663, letters of administration were granted to Mrs. Judith Preble, his widow. At a subsequent Court it was ordered,

"For the more equal distribution of the estate of Mr. Abraham Preble, lately deceased, this Court doth judge meet to dispose of forty pounds to his eldest son, and 20£ apiece to the residue of his children, that daughter only excepted which is married, that received her portion, which portions are to be paid to the sons at one and twenty years of age, and to the daughters at 18 years of age or at the time of the marriage, and the remainder of the said estate is to be left unto the relict, or widow of the said Abraham Preble, out only of which part the debts are to be discharged, and in case the widow do marry, her husband to give in security for the payment of the children's portion to the Court of Associates, and for the better dividing of this estate if occasion be the Commissioner of the Town of York have power to dispose thereof as may most conduce to equity and peace as near as may be according to the former distribution."

At a Court held at York, July 7, 1663, Mrs. Judith Preble was granted "Letters of Administration on the estate of Mr. Abraham Preble, her deceased husband."

Timothy Hatherly, in his will, 1664, makes bequests to "Widow Preble, daughter of my wife Lydia." (See abstract of will, in N. E. Hist, and Gen. Register, vol. vi. pp. 187.)

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