Robert Symonds

Either his birth date is incorrect or his mother's date of death is incorrect... OR > RObert is not the son of John Symonds & (wife)

appears in: http://hwlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/14-Taverns.pdf "Further confusion about who owned the old Fiske property occurs from 1693 to 1709, when according to town records, Thomas Fiske, Jr., was licensed to sell liquor. It appears that he rented the building on the corner of Main and Arbor from Robert Symonds, who the records state was the landlord in 1705 and 1706.22 Again, town records state that from 1709 to about 1716, Joseph Dodge was the keeper of the public-house at Main and Arbor. The owner of the Main and Arbor building, 1708, apparently was Ebenezer Kemball, who had it at least until 1720. Selectmen closely watched over the morals of townspeople. Town records show that on “Feb. 27, 1719. Upon complaint made to the selectmen of Wenham that Robert Symonds, of said town, doth live as a common tippler, misspending his time and estate at the tavern, greatly to the damage of his family, these are to give notice to the tavern-keeper that he do not entertain him, in his house, to sit tippling and misspending his time upon penalty of the law.” 28 This was the same Robert Symonds that previously (1705 and 1706) owned the tavern at Main and Arbor streets. "

problems with alcohol consumption

see: The History of Wenham: Civil and Ecclesiastical : from Its Settlement in 1639, to 1860; page 62

alternate death info

http://ma-vitalrecords.org/MA/Essex/Wenham/cDeathsS.shtml (says he died in Wenham on July 4, 1722)