William Sargent, I

William Sargent Sr.

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He was born in Strawberry Bank, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

He was a planter and a millright.

He received land in Salisbury in 1642.

Richard and Thomas Macy built a sawmill on the west side of the Powow River in 1656.

He served as town clerk, and served in King Phillips War at the age of 60.

He drowned 22 Feb 1686 in Amesbury, Essex , Mass, at age 70.

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Hoyt states according to GR 1885, pg 291, apparently on the authority of Somerby, that the two William Sargents of Amesbury and Charlestown were brothers, and sons of Richard Sargent of London. The eldest son, William, held a position in the navy, was left behind in Virginia, where he married his first wife, Judith Perkins, and had by her two daughters. His parents, supposing him to be dead, gave the name William to a child of subsequent birth. This William afterwards came to Charlestown, in this country. [764] Merrill [770] gives nearly the same story.

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William SARGENT was christened/baptized on 28 JUN 1606 in Bath, Somerset, England. He immigrated in 1630 from England to America. He signed a will on 24 MAR 1670/71 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.

The following is the will of William SARGENT ca 1606-1675, as recorded in Edwin Everett Sargent's book, "The Sargent Record," self-published in 1899.

In the name of God Amen. the 24 day of March 1671\72 I William Sargent of ye town of Emefbury in ye County of Norfolk Maffachufettf in Newengland Seaman being in pritty good health of body & of found & pfect memorie (praise bee given to god for ye same) & knowing ye uncertainty of thif life on earth & being Defirouf to fettle thingf in order doe make thif my laft will & teftamt in manner & form That if to fayFirst & principally I comend my soule to Allmighty God my Creator affurdely believing yt fhall recieve full pardon & free remiffion of all my fins & bee faved by ye peciouf death & meritte of my bleffed Savioc & Redemmer Chrift Jefuf & my body to ye earth from whence it waf taken to bee buried in fuch Decent & Chriftian manner af to my Executoed hereafter named fhall be thought meete & convenient.

And af touching fuch wordly eftate af ye lord mercy hath lent mee my will & meaning if ye fame fhal bee imployed & beftowed af hereafter by thif will & Teftament

Item I give & bequeath to my grand child William Challis five poundf & to my grandchildren Elizabeth, Lydia, Mary & Phillip watson Challif to each of them twenty fhillings

Item I give & bequeath unto my grand children Dorothie & Elizabeth Colby to each of them twenty fhillings

Item I give unto my grand child William Sargent thirty shillings

Itt I give & bequeath unto my daughter Elizabeth ye wife of Sam Colby five poundf

Item I give all ye remayndere of my estate (these my legacies & my funeral chargef being firfte paid) unto my daughter Sarah both howfing & landf, chattelf & other movablef wt foever alwayf pvided that if fhe die wth out children that these howfing & landf: to bee equally divided: unto my four children hereafter named, i: e: my fons Thomaf & William & my daughters Mary & Elizabeth

Item I do conftitute ordaine & appointe my fone Thomaf Sargent & my daughter Sarah Sargent Executors unto thif my will & Teftamt & doe make my loving brother in law Tho Bradbury & my efteemed friend Major Pike my overfeerf to take care that thif my will may bee prformed according to ye true intente & meaning thereof

And to thif my last will & Teftament I doe hereunto fess my hand & feale ye day & year above named

William Sargent (Seal)

Signed, fealed and thto in

ye prfence uf

Thomas Bradbury

The mark of MB Mary Bradbury

John Bradbury

Tho Bradbury & Jno Bradbury testified upon oath yt they faw Wm Sargent senr. figne, feale & declare thif to bee hif will before ye court held at Salifbury 13 Aprill 75

Tho Bradbury rec

Entered and Recorded in ye County recordf for Norfolk (tit 3d pa 6 ye 29th of Aprile 1675) as attefte

Tho Bradbury recr

He died in MAR 1673/74 at Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He will was proved on 13 APR 1675 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.

The inventory of the estate of "Willi. Sargent, Senr.," taken 8 April 1675 by Thomas Sergeant and John Weed, totalled £196, of which the real estate totalled £137 10s., including "housing & lands about the house & orchard on both sides [of] the country way," £85; "half the lot in the tide meadows, £16; "a Higledee Pigledee lot in the salt marsh" £25; "a lot lying in ... Lyons Mouth," £5 10s.; "a lot in the great swamp," £2; "a lot in ... Bugmore," £4.

He has Ancestral File Number 8JD9-XN.

In the General Court of records of Massachusetts Colony in April, 1633, by an act of the court, protecting certain grantees of land then at Agawam, now Ipswich, Massachusetts, in their rights and "Willm S'jeant" was one of those grantees.. He took the oath of allegiance to the Colony and King in 1639. He was one of the first settlers of Newbury in 1635. He was at Hampton, New Hampshire in 1639, and is taxed in Salisbury New Town, December 25, 1650, 7s.4d. He was next located at same place, now Amesbury and Merrimac, in 1655 where he resided until his death in 1675.

He married Elizabeth Perkins about 1633. No record of her death is found but it was before September 18, 1670, for on that date he remarried to Joanna Rowell, who survived him. (Amesbury marriages show William Sr m Joanna Rowell on Sept 18,1670)

His will was probated April 29, 1675 and names his son Thomas and daughter Sarah as executors; his brother-in-law Thomas Bradbury and friend Major Pike as overseers. All his property was left to his children and grandchildren, which inventoried at 191 pounds.

Hoyt's "Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury" page 310,311, indicate William was b. 1598. He was labeled as "seaman". Indicated he married 1st Judith Perkins, 2d Elizabeth Perkins; 3d., Sep 18, 1670 (records at Salem) Joanna Pinder (wid of Valentine Rowell). He is said to have been one of the first settlers of Ipswich in 1633; afterwords of Newbury; one of the first settlers of Hampton in 1638, rec land in Salisbury in 1640, 41,42,43, and '54; commoner and taxed in 1650; moved early across the Powow; one of the origional settlers of Amesbury where he received land 1654-68; a "township" for one of his sons, 1660; meeting house seat 1667; d. ab 1674; will 24 Mar 1670-1; 13 April 1675. Wid Joanna m. 26 Oct 1676 in Amesbury, Richard Currier. (listed 7 children) He was born in 1606 in Bath, Somerset, England. He was baptized on Jun 28 1606 in Bath, Somerset, England. Baptised in Abbey Church, Bath, County Somerset, England He died about 1674 in Salisbury, Ma. Another William Sargent, in Gloucester, 1649; m. 1651 Abigail Clark; descendants given in Babson's Gloucester, pp 148-50. The court rec. at sm. state that he was in 1652 nearest of kin in this country to Thomas Wathing, who died with Prince Rupert, "said Wm. being his father's sister's son."

WILLIAM SARGENT.

Edwin Everett Sargent's book, "The Sargent Record," self-published in 1899.

Since my extensive research in England, which included the examination of probate, church, naval, judicial and other records by genealogists and others; advertising in the leading daily and Episcopalian papers of London, offering a reward for information, I failed to substantiate the statements I copied in my former work, therefore I feel it incumbent on me to give the following explanation: The quotations that William, "was born in London in 1602," that his father Richard, "was a barrister at law," and his mother, "a daughter of Sir Richard Saltonstall," I could not substantiate and found much to disprove the last. two. I believe that a part of these statements I quoted from the persons making them, were conclusions drawn from a record furnished them about fifty years ago, of a 'Richard Sargent, a justice, who died at Dinton, England, in 1665, who had a son William." But the Dinton Parish records show that the children (if William the son of Richard, were baptised there from 1630, to 1634, and that Richard died aged 79. He therefore would have been but thirteen years old when our ancestor William was born, if born in 1602. That William "was appointed midshipman in the navy," I found no record. That William "sailed with Captain John Smith, in 1614, to Jamestown, Virginia, stopping at Agawam, Massachusetts, en route," may be true as to his being with Captain Smith at Agawam, as he settled there afterwards. But that he went to Virginia, as that writer alleges, is questioned, as history does not give Capt. Smith as being in Virginia later than 1609. William was a seaman in his younger years as he is designated as a "seaman" or "mariner" in his will and other documents, but he no doubt later in life followed other occupations with it. That his father Richard held a position in the "Royal Navy," another tradition advanced by others, is not confirmed, so far as I can learn, by the navy records. As to William being born in London, and in 1602, it may be claimed that it has been a tradition so long it must be true, but I have proven so many traditions untrue, I am skeptical in this matter. As the birth of William of Malden, whose record was written by Aaron Sargent of Somerville, Mass., was known to have been in 1602, and the two Williams lived so near each other in Massachusetts, their records of birth might have got "mixed up." Then I have a letter from a person in England stating that he was born in 1598, but cannot learn as there is any authority for it. The nearest record to the one claimed in 1602, I have been able to find in England, of a William born to a Richard, is the following from the Abby church, Bath: "Marriages. 1602, November, Richard Sargent, and Katherine Steevenes the 22 day. Ano Dom., 1630, Jening Walters and Joane Sergeant, were married April 15." "Baptisms. Elizabeth the daughter of Richard Sargeant, 28 day 1603, October. 1606 June, William the Sonne of Richard Sargeant the 28th. March 1609, Joane the daughter of Richard Sargent was baptized the 26th." As there is no further record of the father or son found there, they may have gone to London and William shipped from there. At first I was not inclined to believe this William was our ancestor or from this part of England, for the following reasons: There were many Sargents, and some whose given names were Richard, in Cambridge and Suffolk counties, England, and as John Winthrop and some of the others who settled at Agawam, Mass., and changed its name to Ipswich, were from Ipswich, Suffolk county, and vicinity, England, I was inclined to believe William was from there. But since learning that the father of William's first wife, "Quartermaster John Perkins," was at Agawam in August, 1631, in a short time after arriving in America, and that he came from near Bath, England, that if William was from there and with Capt. Smith in 1614, when the latter landed at Agawam and wrote up its beauties and advantages. William may have returned and induced John Perkins and others to emigrate. The first recorded record I bond of William is in the General Court records of Massachusetts Colony in April, 1633, by an act by said court protecting certain grantees of land then at Agawam, now Ipswich, Massachusetts., in their rights, and William Sarjeant was one of them. The next record is that of his oath of allegiance and fidelity in 1639, and his name is recorded Willi : Sergent, but neither is as he spelt it. It is shown by records and deeds that he was later one of the first settlers at Wessacucon, now Newbury, MA, 1635; at Winnacumet, now Hampton, N. H., in 1638; at South Merrimac, now Salisbury, Mass., in 1639, and that "Wm. Sargent, townsman and commoner of Salisbury, tax rate Dec. 25, 1650, 7s. 4d." He was next located at Salisbury New Town, now Amesbury and Merrimac, in 1655, where he resided until his death in 1675. The statement in the town history of Amesbury, "that William married for his first wife Judith, a sister of his second wife, Elizabeth Perkins," the author informs me he made on information of another, and had no other authority. The genealogy of the John Perkins's family gives no daughter Judith, and that Elizabeth was born in 1618, at Newent, Gloucestershire, England, and therefore old enough by 1634 to have been the mother of Mary, the eldest child of William, who married Philip Challis, and Mary old enough to be a mother in 1653, when her first child was born. This therefore refutes the marriage of William to Judith, and also the idea that Elizabeth was too young to have been the mother of the eldest children of William. The date of their marriage was probably about 1633, as she came to America with her parents in the ship Lion in the spring of 1631, and they were both at Agawam prior to 1633. I found no date of her death, but it was before Sept. 18, 1670, for he married on that date Joanna Powell, who survived him and married Richard Currier of Amesbury. Owing to a lack and contradiction of records, there is an uncertainty as to William's children, their order, dates of birth and death. Where there are two records which conflict, I have used the Salisbury, if that is one of the two. There is a record of "Mary b. June 17, 1647," and no record of her death, and it is not probable a second child was named Mary after the one who married Mr. Challis, the one named in William's will. So I am convinced it Should have been "Lydia," Of whom I find no record of birth, hut "died in 1661I," and have given the former under the latter name. The "Elizabeth" given as the "wife of William died 1641" must have been the daughter "Elizabeth" who "died July 14, 1641" He was one of the "Prudential" men in Amesbury in 1675; he resided in the part of the town known as the West Parish, and built a house near the church and academy. He died in March, 1675, and was buried in the cemetery at the Ferry.’’ His will was probated at Salem Mass., in 1675. The inventory of William's estate (as near as can be made out) amounted to 191 pounds.

Submitted by jim roaix

cooperroaix@chesapeake.net

SOURCES: (1) Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996, Family History Library, 35 North West Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150; (2) Perkins Family in Ye Olden Times. p 78-79 (B11C27); (3) Old Families of Salisbury & Amesbury, Mass by Hoyt, p 281 (Mass S&); (4) Dawes & Allied Families by Mary Walton Ferre, p 484-85 (B12F12); (5) Lynn Hist. Reg. Mass. 27A-7B, B4 D8, B6 3A.; (6) Edwin Everett Sargent's book, "The Sargent Record," self-published in 1899.

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MORE NOTES:

William Sergent 2d, also of Gloucester, "mariner," appeared in Gloucester in 1678; m. Mary Duncan; descendants given in Babson's Gloucester, pp. 150-7. It is stated that he was the son of Wm. and Mary (Epes) Sargent of Exeter, Eng., Barbadoes and Bristol, Eng., Where Wm. 2d was born.

There was still another William Sargent, of Charlestown, 1638-45. It is stated, G.R. 1885, p. 291, apparently on the authority of Somerby, that the two William Sargents, of Amesbury and Charlestown were brothers, and sons of Richard Sargent of London. The eldest son, William, held a position in the navy, was left behind in Virginia, where he married his first wife, Judith Perkins, and had by her two daughters. His parents, supposing him to be dead, gave the name William to a child of subsequent birth. This William afterwards came to Charlestown in this country. M. Ames., p. 102, gives nearly the same story, but states that his first wife Judith Perkins d. abt 1633, leaving three daus.; Lydia, Sarah, who must have died young, and Mary. (See p. 282 (John Perkins, of Ipswich, b. abt 1590)) He was married to Elizabeth Perkins on Sep 18 1640 in Salisbury, Ma.

Parents: Richard SARGENT and Katherine STEVENS.

Spouse: Elizabeth PERKINS. William SARGENT and Elizabeth PERKINS were married on 18 SEP 1640 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. Children were: Mary SARGENT, Elizabeth SARGENT, Lt. Thomas SARGENT, William SARGENT, Elizabeth SARGENT, Lydia SARGENT, Sarah SARGENT.

Spouse: Joanna PINDOR. William SARGENT and Joanna PINDOR were married on 18 SEP 1670 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.

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1. Occupation: Seamen 1
2. Note:

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Ancestral File and the IGI, International Genealogical Index,both
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Latter Day Saints
William Sargent appeared in Ipswich in 1633, the Shatswells
being also residents there. At this time he was apparently
living in Newbury, MA, bur before 1638, had removed to Hampton,
NH. He returned from there in less than a year. He was in
Salisbury in 1639 and lived there until after 1651 when he moved
across the Powwow river and spent the rest of his life in the
West Parish of amesbury. In 1667, he was one of the Prudential
Men of amesbury.
William served on a grand jury in 1652. In 1653 he sued Samuel
Buswell for a cow which had been killed by a beast belonging to
the defendant. It was agreed that he should have half the price
of the living cow, as appraised by two different men, and that
its hide should be divided between him and Buswell. In 1664, he
was on the trial jury, and 13 april 1669 and 12 april 1670 he
again served on the grand jury.
William Sargent and Joanna his wife, late wife to Valentine
rowell, sued Christopher Osgood for debt in 1671/2 winning the
case. Joanna was administratrix of her former husband,
Valentine rowell, and there was a legacy due her children by
rowell from their grandfather, Thomas rowell, whose widow,
Margery, had married secondly Christopher Osgood, Sr., and
thirdly Thomas Coleman.
William Sargent left the following will:
In the name of God amen the 24 day of Marche: 1670-71 I
William Sargent of ye town of Emsbury in ye County of Norfolk
Massachusetts in New-england: Seeman: being in pritty good
health of body, & of sound, & prfect memorie (praise bee given
to god for ye same) & knowing ye uncertenty of this life on
earth, & being desierous to settle things in order doe make this
my lans will and Testamt in manner, & forme following...Item I
give & bequeath: to my grandchild William Challis five pound: &
to my grandchildren: Elizabeth, Lidia: Mary: & Philip watson
Challis to each of them twenty shillings: Item I give &
bequeath unto my Grand children: Dorethie, & Elizabeth Colby:
to each of them twenty shillings: Item I give unto my
grandchild William Sargent thirty shilling Itt I give &
bequeath unto my Daughter Elizabeth ye wyfe of Samll Colby five
pound: Item I give all ye remaynder of my estate (these my
legasies: & my funerall Charges being first payd) unto my
daughter Sarah foth howsing & lands: chattels & other moveables
wtsoever; always pvided that if she die, without children; that
then ye howsing & lands to bee equally : unto my fower
Childeren herafter named i.e.: my sons Thomas & William: & my
daughters: mary and Elizabeth: Item I do constitute ordaine &
appoint my sone Thomas Sargent, & my daughter Sarah Sargent,
Executors unto this my will & Testamt: & doe make my loveing
brother in law mr Tho: Bradbury: & my esteemed friend Major
Robert Pike, my overseers, to take care that this my will bee
prformed according to ye true intent & meaning thereof: And to
this my last Will & Testamt: I doe hereunto sett my hand &
seale ye day & yeare above named.
William Sargent sued Mr. William Hook of Salisbury for 56s. in
corn 26 December 1643. He acknowledged judgement in favor of
Mr. Jonathan Wade 26 September 1648.
Michael Spencer sued him for detaining corn and other goods 2
January 1650. Hard words were exchanged between Sargents and
their near neighbors, the Martins. either William Sr. or Jr.
was sued for slander by George Martin, who claimed Sargent had
called his wife a witch 13 April 1669. Martin sued Thomas
Sargent for saying his son George Martin was a bastard and that
richard Martin was Goodwife Martin's imp. In 1672 William
Sargent and Joanna his wife sued Christopher Osgood for debt due
part on the estate of Joanna's late jusband, Balentine Rowell.
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The Family of John Perkins of Ipswich, by George A Perkins, M.D. lists the following on Part 1, pages 7 and 14:

4 Elizabeth (John1) was born in England in 1618. and came to New England in the ship Lion with her parents in 1631. She lived in Ipswich, and probably married her husband, William Sargent,[6] there. The date of her marriage is not known. He was born in England in 1602, was one of the first settlers here, and went from Ipswich to settle Newbury. He was also among the first to settle in Hampton; from that place he went to Amesbury, where he made a permanent settlement, and died there in 1677, in the seventy-fifth year of his age.

The time of the death of his wife, Elizabeth was in 1700. His will was made in 1671. The descendants of William and Elizabeth (Perkins) Sargent are now very numerous.

Children of William Sargent and wife Elizabeth were:

Thomas, b. June 11, 1643; m. Rachel Barnes; d. 1705-6.

William, b. m. Mary Colby; d.

Mary, b. m. Philip Chalis; d.

Elizabeth, b. m. Samuel Colby.; d.

Sarah, b.

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Emigrated to New England Colonies 1630

Elizabeth Perkins was his second wife

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Info from The History of the Town of Goffstown 1733-1920 by George Plummer Hadley, Vol 2, pg 449

He ws first known to be in Ipswich,Mass in 1633 and a little while later in the town of Newbury,Mass., where he moved from Hampton in 1638. At one time he was a resident of Salisbury Mass which was about 1650, and in 1655 he moved to Amesbury Mass where he resdied until his death in 1675.

His first wife was supposed to be Elizabeth Perkins who died sometime prior to 1670 for upon Sept 18,1670 he married Joanna Rowell, who survived him and remarried after his death.

He had 9 children, all by his first marraige.

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Hoyt states according to GR 1885, pg 291, apparently on the authority of Somerby, that the two William Sargents of Amesbury and Charlestown were brothers, and sons of Richard Sargent of London. The eldest son, William, held a position in the navy, was left behind in Virginia, where he married his first wife, Judith Perkins, and had by her two daughters. His parents, supposing him to be dead, gave the name William to a child of subsequent birth. This William afterwards came to Charlestown, in this country. [764] Merrill [770] gives nearly the same story.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~rsholmes/fg03/fg0...

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Source:

The Prominent Families of the United States of America, by Arthur Meredyth Burke, 1908, reprinted 1991, p. 158 (descent of Herbert Howland Sargent)

Links

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Marriage facts- married 1st wife: Judith Perkins b.    ? d. 1633 married on ? married 2nd wife: Elizabeth Perkins ( sister to Judith ) b. 3/21/1610/1611 d. Abt. 9/18/1670 married in Abt. 1633 probably in England. married wife #3: Joanna Pinder b.    ? d.   ? married on 9/18/1670.

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He migrated to America in 1632 . He was often referred to as a seaman or a yeoman in legal documents

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Birth: 1598 Bath Somerset, England Death: Mar., 1675 Amesbury Essex County Massachusetts, USA

Son of Richard & Katherine Sargent. Grandson of Hugh Sargent and Magaret Gifford.

William SARGENT: Born: 1598 Bath, somerset, England.

Origin: Unknown. Migration: 1632. First Residence: Ipswich. Removes: Newbury, Hampton, Salisbury, Amesbury.

He with twelve other men, and his daughters Lydia, Sarah, and Mary, commenced the settlement of Ipswich, Massachusetts. He soon after went to Newbury, Massachusetts and with others commenced a settlement there. About 1738, he with others commenced a settlement at Hampton, New Hampshire. About 1740, he removed to Salisbury, New Hampshire and was one of eighteen original proprietors, who settled in New Salisbury, now Amesbury, Massachusetts.

Occupation: Seaman / mariner. Church Membership: Admission to a Massachusetts Bay church prior to 22 May 1639 implied by freemanship. Freeman: 22 May 1639 (as "Mr. Willi[am] Sergent") [ MBCR 1:375]. Education: Signed his name to his will and to deeds.

Offices: Essex grand jury, 13 April 1652 [ EQC 1:251]. Petit jury, 8 April 1662, 24 June 1662, 13 April 1669, 12 April 1670 [ EQC 1:377, 385, 4:128, 235]. [Some of this service may belong to William Sargent of Gloucester.] Sworn clerk of the train band of Salisbury on 8 April 1651 [ EQC 1:223].

Married: 1) m. 1633 Amesbury, Essex, MA - Elizabeth PERKINS she and her parents John PERKINS and Judith GATER emigrated on the Lyon with Roger Williams in 1631. [Elizabeth's sister Mary (Perkins) Bradbury was convicted of witchcraft in Salem, MA in 1692, but was eventually freed.] 2) m. Joanna PINDER 18 September 1670 Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts, daughter of Henry and Mary PINDER. Joanna was the widow of Valentine ROWELL she later married Richard CURRIER.

COMMENTS: William "Sargeant" sued Mr. William Hook of Salisbury for 56s. in corn 26 December 1643 [ EQC 1:55]. He acknowledged judgment in favor of Mr. Jonathan Wade 26 September 1648 [ EQC 1:147]. Michael Spencer sued him for detaining corn and other goods 2 January 1650 [ EQC 1:205]. Hard words were exchanged between the Sargents and their near neighbors, the Martins. Either William Sr. or Jr. was sued for slander by George Martin, who claimed Sargent had called his wife a witch 13 April 1669 [ EQC 4:129]. Martin sued Thomas Sargent for saying that his son George Martin was a bastard and that Richard Martin was Goodwife Martin's imp [ EQC 4:129]. In 1672 William Sargent and Joanna his wife sued Christopher Osgood for debt due part of the estate of Joanna's late husband, Valentine Rowell [ EQC 5:20].

Died: March 1675 Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. Buried: The Corner Cemetery Amsbury, MA.

Memorial location: Golgotha Burial Ground

Family links:

Spouses:

 Elizabeth Perkins Sargent (1611 - 1670)

 Joanne Pinder Rowell Sargent Currier (____ - 1690)

 Elizabeth Perkins Sargent (1611 - 1670)*

Children:

 Mary Sargent Challis (1634 - 1716)*

 Elizabeth Sargent (1641 - 1641)*

 Thomas Sargent (1643 - 1706)*

 William Sargent (1645 - 1712)*

 Lydia Sargent (1647 - 1661)*

 Sarah Sargent (1648 - 1651)*

 Elizabeth Sargent Colby (1648 - 1736)*

 Sarah Sargent Bagley (1652 - 1701)*

*Calculated relationship

Burial: Corner Cemetery Amesbury Essex County Massachusetts, USA

Created by: JoLynn Mangum Cooper Sel... Record added: Mar 19, 2009 Find A Grave Memorial# 34984585

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Husband of Elizabeth (Perkins) Sargent — married about 1636 in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts Baymap [uncertain]
Husband of Joanna (Pinder) Currier — married 18 Sep 1670 in Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colonymap
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Father of Mary (Sargent) Challis, Thomas Sargent, William Sargent Jr, Lydia Sargent, Elizabeth (Sargent) Colby and Sarah (Sargent) Bagley
Died Mar 1675 in Amesbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colonymap
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The Puritan Great Migration.
William Sargent Sr. migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1620-1640).
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1 Disputed Origin
2 Biography
2.1 Marriages and Children
2.2 Property and Positions
2.3 Death and Probate
3 Sources
Disputed Origin

According to "The Great Migration Directory: Immigrants to New England, 1620–1640" published in 2015, the parents and origins of this person are not proven.[GMB 1630-33; HmTR 44; NeTR 8; SyTR 5][1] There is no compelling evidence he was son of Richard Sargent and Katherine Stevens. For this reason, they have been removed as parents.

This family has been treated extensively by Mary Lovering Holman in "Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury"[2] and, in 1931, by Mary Walton Ferris in "Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines".[3] But neither of these authors made a claim to his English ancestry. However, David Webster Hoyt in "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts"[4] stated that Somerby concluded this William Sargent and William Sargent of Charlestown were brothers and sons of Richard Sargent of London, and also supposed the second William to be dead while he was in Virginia and gave the same name to a second son William of Amesbury. No evidence is cited for this narrative. Robert Charles Anderson, in 1995, in "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633,"[5] writes:

"The convoluted affinity proposed by Hoyt among William of Amesbury, Richard of London, and ghostly William of Charlestown strains all credulity. [Hoyt 310-11]."
Anderson proceeds, referring to NEHGR 150:181-90, where it is shown that Theophilus Shatswell of Haverhill named "my brother Wilyam Sargent" implying that Theophilus Shatswell had married the sister of William Sargent. Anderson concludes:

"The most likely remaining solution is that Theophilus Shatswell married a sister of William Sargent."
Thus we have at least a clue to the identity of one of his siblings that perhaps may give us a clue to his English origin some day.[5] Therefore, as of 2015, the position of the Great Migration project is that the parents of William Sargent have not been proven.

Biography

Records indicate that William Sargent immigrated to Ipswich by 1632 during the Puritan Great Migration.[5] William was a seaman by trade, and was successful enough to be called 'Mister.' The following letter from John Winthrop to his wife suggests Sargent may have been in Winthrop's employ:

"To my deare wife Mrs. Martha Winthrop deliver In Boston
My Sweete and Deare Wife, I doe much long to see thee and injoy thy sweete company. It would be a great comfort to me if I could but heare from thee how thou doest… prethe send the pieces by William Sargeant and send Johns shirts for he wanteth them very much, and if it be the latter end of next weeke before he commeth then send your maide the Girle and Elzabeth Stratton for the winter wilbe so neere now and the wether could that it wilbe tedious for them to come by water: but then send a hogshead of meale and a sacke of samp corne ready grond if he can bring them if not then a sacke of meale and make some more sackes and some for our use and here and send some bedding with them: if he cannot bring them then the weeke after next send them with John Gallop and speake to him before hand to come to bringe the maids and lade him with such things as you have ready my Chests, and such meale as I wrote to my father for as it ready, and all your Chests, and things you can spare also pray my father to send me a sow of lead by William Sargeant: so I commend you to the protection of God and rest thy loving husband.
Agawam Octob: 24, 1633 - John Winthrop"[6]
So it appears that William was perhaps in the employ of the Winthrops or perhaps he was just planning on coming from Boston to Ipswich at that time as he was a mariner by trade.

Marriages and Children

William married twice.

He married by about 1636 to Elizabeth Perkins, daughter of John Perkins.[5] Note: profile also includes: marriage on 18 Sep 1636 in Amesbury, Esssex County, Massachusetts.[citation needed] They had the following children:[5]

Mary , b.c. 1636. m.Philip Watson-Challis;
Sarah, b.c. 1641, d. 14 Sep 1641;
Thomas, b.11 Jun 1643, m.Rachel Barnes;
William, b. 2 Jan 1645/6, m. Mary Colby;
Elizabeth, b.22 Nov 1648, m. Samuel Colby;
Lydia (probably), b.c. 1650, d. "bet. 1660 and 1662";
Sarah, b. 29 Feb 1651/2, m. Orlando Bagley.
He married at Amesbury on 18 Sept 1670, as his 2nd, and as her 2nd, to Joanna Pinder Rowell, daughter of Henry and Mary Pinder, widow of Valentine Rowell.[5] After William's death, she married, at Amesbury on 26 Oct 1676, as her 3rd, to Richard Currier.[5] Joanna died at Amesbury in October 1690.[5]

Property and Positions

He was an educated man. While no books are listed in his inventory, he did sign his name to his will, deeds and other documents. Anderson makes a mistake in claiming that this William was made a freeman on 22 May 1639 as “Mr. Willi[am] Sergent” (p.1632), but the use of Mr. makes it clear that this belongs to William Sergent of Charlestown. In the Great Migration Directory, the source listing corrects this error.[1]

William first settled in Ipswich where he received a 12 acre grant in 1634(2). While there, the General Court issued this edict 1 April 1633: “It is ordered that no person whatsoever shall go to plant or inhabit at Aggawam, without leave from the court, except those that are already gone, viz: ... Willm Srjeant”.[7] By 1638, he had moved to Newbury as “Willli[am] Sergant” was amongst the list of mostly Newbury men headed by Stephen Bachiler, who on 6 September 1638 were granted “liberty to begin a plantation at Winnacunnet (Hampton)”.[8] “Will[iam] Sargent” was listed in the section of married men on the list of first comers to Hampton, NH.[9] He stayed in Hampton for about six years before moving to Salisbury by 1644 and finally settled in Amesbury between 1666 and 1669 (p 1632).[5] He is listed in the first division of land in “Colchester” in Salisbury on 7 Nov. 1639 in the front of the town’s earliest book of land records.[10] William and his son Thomas were on a July 1667 list of those with meeting house seats in Amesbury. His name is on a list of the original inhabitants of Salisbury from a town meeting held on 3 Feb. 1650/1.

On 7 November 1644, John Severans of Salisbury, planter, sold to William Sargent of Salisbury, planter, twenty acres of upland in Salisbury on the west side of the Powwow river.[11] On 25 March 1647, Anthony “Colebie” of Salisbury, planter, deeded to William Sargent of Salisbury, seaman, a dwelling house and house lot in Salisbury between Jarred Haddon and Henry Browne.[12] William Sargent of Salisbury, seaman, sold to Samuel Fellows of Salisbury on 25 Mar. 1648/9 a dwelling house and land. On 16 December 1652, William sold to John Browne of Hampton, the meadow and upland adjacent to Aquilla chase and widow “Bristos”.[13] William sold the upland in Salisbury "near the Pawwaus River above the falls” to John Wooding of Salisbury on 15 Apr. 1659. [14]

On 1 November 1666: “I William Sargent of… Salisbury… seaman… for… yt natural affeccion I… do bare unto my dearly & well beloved sone Thomas Sargent… doe… confirme unto… my sone all yt my lott of upland… thirty acres… wthin… the new towne of… Salisbury” on the Merrimack River.[15]

On 22 Oct. 1669: “Willi: Saragent of ye town of Almsbery… for ye natural affection I have & do bare unto my beloved son Thomas Sargent… ye full compleat half part… of my six acre lott of marsh…also all yt my Sweepage lott of saltmarsh… in Salisbury” at a place called “ye beache” being lot number 8 containing three acres and four rods, being half the lot of marsh between two islands called “Barnss Iland” and “Ware Iland”. [16]

On 9 October 1669: “I William Sargent of… Almsbery… planter… in consideracon of yt natural afection wch I have & doe bare unto my well beloved sone William Sargent… confirme unto ye sd William… several Divisions or lotts of upland & marsh… two hundred acres… wthin… Almsbery… also… 8 acres… in ox common… a lot of upland west of the great pond containing forty acres… a lot of upland in urchin meadow hill… forty-five acres which I bought of Edward Goe… the last division of three acres in the pond meadow… in Amesbury… also one ful & compleat halfe of my first division of ye higledee pigledee lotts of salt marsh now lying in Salisbury. [17]

“I William Sargent… of Amsburie… seaman for… two pounds ten shillings received of Willi: Sargent Junr of ye same town planter… sell… my two acre lott of upland at the Indian ground in Amesbury.” The deed is dated 4 Mar. 1670/1 and Johana Sargent also signed this deed with her mark.[18]

On 23 Apr. 1672 William Sargent of Amesbury, yeoman, sold to Isaac Green of Hampton two acres of salt marsh called Hall’s farm.[19] In the following year on 1 July he sold, with the consent of his wife "Janna", part of his houselot consisting of 95 rods of land in Amesbury, to Thomas Wells of Amesbury.[20] On 1 Oct. 1673 “William Sergent ... of Almsberry in Norfolke senior and mariner” mortgaged to Nathaniel Williams of Suffolk County eight acres of upland in Amesbury that William had by exchange with Richard Currier.[21] On 24 February 1673/4 William Sargent Sr. of Amesbury, seaman, sold to Caleb Moody of Newbury, maltser, for £5 1s “my second division higledee pigledee” lot of salt marsh containing three acres in Salibury.[22]

Among parcels sold by William Sargent Jr on 18 October 1696 to Henry Deering, was a great lot of upland given by his grandfather [who is unnamed... shoot!] to his father William Sergeant, “containing by estimation 200 acres in Amesbury amongst the great lots”.[23] As no other Sargent was in the area at the time, the unnamed grandfather might have been John Perkins, however, no grant to John of such a lot has been found. If this unnamed grandfather was his mother's father then one would expect that she would have signed the transfer of property to him in 1669. This implies that William's first wife Elizabeth had died by this date.

William served on the Essex Grand Jury on 13 April 1652 and the Jury to End Small Causes on 8 April 1662, 24 June 1662, 13 April 1669 and 12 April 1670. He was also sworn as Clerk of the Train Band of Salisbury, Essex co., MA on 8 April 1651.[24]

William was also placed in other positions of trust as on 28 Sept. 1652, he was granted administration on the estate of Thomas Wathen. Theophilus Shatswell of Haverhill named “my Brother Wilyam Sargent” and “my Kinsman Lefttenent Philip challis” as overseers in his will of 20 June 1663. On 3 May 1665, William Sargent Sr. and Lt. Phillip Challes took inventory on the estate of William Delle.[25]

William also had his share of court cases... which seems so common at the time. He sued Mr. William Hook of Salisbury for 56s. “in corn” on 26 Dec. 1643.[26] William also acknowledged the Ipswich Court’s judgment in favor of Mr. Jonathan Wade and Mr. William Payne on 26 Sept. 1648.[27] Michael Spencer sued him at a court in Salem for detaining corn and other goods on 2 Jan. 1650.[28] William sued Samuel Buswell at the 12 Apr. 1653 court at Salisbury over a cow that was killed by a beast of Samuel's. In addition, there was an ongoing dispute between the Sargent family and their neighbors the Martins. George Martin sued one of the William Sargents (the court records are unclear as to whether it was William, Sr. or Jr.) for slander on 13 Apr. 1669 accusing him of calling Martin’s wife “a witch” (not something you took lightly in 17th century New England!). He also sued Thomas Sargent for saying that George Martin, Jr. was a bastard and that “Richard Martin was Goodwife Martin’s imp”(24). Finally, in 1672, William Sargent and Joanna his wife sued Christopher Osgood for debt due part of the estate of Joanna’s late husband, Valentine Rowell.[29]

Death and Probate

William died in Mar 1675 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts and is buried in Golgotha Burial Ground, Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.[5][30][31][32][33][4]

William Sargent made his will 24 March 1670/1:

"In the name of God Amen the 24 day of Marche: 1670-71 I William Sargent of ye town of Emsbery in ye County of Norfolk Massechusets in Newengland: Seaman: being in preitty good health of body, & of sound, & pfect memorie (praise bee giuen to god for ye same) & knowing ye vncertenty of this life on earth, & being desierous to settle things in order doe make this my last will & Testamt in manner, & forme following: That is to say.
First & principally I comend my soule to Allmighty God my Creator assueredly beleiuing yt I shall receiue full pardon & free remission of all my sinns & be saved by ye prcious death & meritts of my blessed Savior & Redeemer Christ Jesus, & my body to ye earth from whence it was taken to bee buried in such decent & Christian manner as to my Executors, hereafter named shalbe thought meet & convenient: and as touching such worldly estate as ye lord in mercy hath lent mee my will & meaning is ye same shalbee imployed & bestowed as hereafter by this my will is expressed, And first I doe revoke, renounce frustrate & make voyd all wills by mee formerly made & declare & appoint this my last will & Testamt
Item I giue & bequeath : to my grandchild William Challis fiue pound: & to my grand childeren: Elizabeth, Lidia: Mary: & Phillip watson Challis to eache of them twenty shillings:
Item I giue & bequeath vnto my Grand childeren: Dorethie, & Elizabeth Colby: to each of them twenty shillings:
Item I giue vnto my grandchild William Sargent thirty shilling
Itt I giue & bequeath vnto my Daughter Elizabeth ye wyfe of Samll Colby fiue pound: Item I giue all ye remaynder of my estate (these my legasies: & my funerall Charges being first payd) vnto my daughter Sarah both howsing & lands: chattells & other moueables wtsoever; alwayes pvided that if she die, wthout childeren: that then ye howsing & lands to bee equally divided: vnto my fower Childeren herafter named i.e.: my sons Thomas & William: & my daughters: Mary and Elizabeth:
Item I do constitute ordaine & appoint my sone Thomas Sargent, & my daughter Sarah Sargent, Executors vnto this my will & Testamt: & doe make my loueing brother in law mr Tho: Bradbury: & my Esteemed friend Major Robert Pike, my overseers, to take care that this my will may bee pformed according to ye true intent & meaning therof:
And to this my last Will & Testamt: I doe herevnto sett my hand & seale ye day & ye are aboue named.
William Sargent
Witness: Tho. Bradbury
Mary Bradbury her MB mark
John Bradbury
The will was proved in Salisbury court Apr. 13, 1675 by Tho. Bradbury and Jno. Bradbury to be the last will of Wm. Sargent, Sen."[34]

Inventory (of the estate of Willi. Sargent, Senr: copy) taken by Thomas Sargent and John Weed.

(housing & lands about ye : copy) house (& oarchyard on both sides ye Contrey way: copy).................. 85li.
(Halfe ye lott in ye tide: copy) meadows...... 16li
(A higledee pigledee lot in ye salt marsh: copy).25li
(A lot lying in a place: copy) commonly called ye
Lyons mouth....................................................... 5li. 10s
(A lot in ye great Swamp: copy)........................ 2li
(A lott in a place commonly called: copy)
Bugmore..............................................................4li
(a payer of Oxen: copy)................................... 12li. 10s
(Two Cowes & a Calfe........................................ 7li. 6s
mare & a two ye ar old horse........................... 3li. 10s
Two 3 ye ar old heiffers..................................... 6li. 10s
eighteen sheep & Lambs: copy)....................... 6li
(five Swine: copy)............................................... 2li. 15s
(A cheyn & wedges, tenant saw &: copy), severall
other Iron things............................................... 2li. 5s
(2 Iron potts, 2 tramells: copy), spit, dripin pan,
(frying pan, 2 kettles: copy), warming pan & (other
Iron things: copy)............................................... 2li. 10s
(4 peuter platters wth: copy), other peuter things &
Tin....................................................................... 1li
(Earthen ware & wooden platers: copy) & dishes &
trayes.......................................................................... 3s
(hogshead barrels, tubs: copy), Celers wth other
wooden things........................................................ 12s
(table, Cubard & seats: copy) belonging to ye
house................................................................... 1li. 5s
(bed, bedstead, 2 sheets: copy), 4 blankets, rug &
curtin.................................................................. 7 li
(bed, bedstead & curtains: copy), truckle bed &
beaden................................................................3li
(3 chests, bible, sheep shears &: copy) other (small:
copy)
things............................................................ 15s
(woolen yarne: copy)............................................... 5s
(lace, Incle & cot: copy) ten yarne................... 1li. 10s
total................................................................ 196li.
(Inventory taken as it was given in by Tho. Sargent 8:2m:1675 by us. John Weed.
The following came to our knowledge after the apprizement: one sheet, Tow yarn 5 pound, one payle, two ston juggs, smoothing Iron, Carpett, firkin of soap, one blankett, one pillow.
Attested in Salisbury court Apr. 13 1675 by Tho. Sargent: copy)"
On 14 Apr. 1675:

“I Sarah Sargent of… Eamsbery… Mayden, was by my father William Sargent… late deceased… appointed together wth my brother Tho: Sargent, executor of his last will… doe by these prsents give full power… to my loving brother Tho: Sargent… to act & doe wtsoever shalbe… necessary…
Witness: Tho. Bradbury and John Bradbury. Acknowledged May 10, 1675 before Robert Pike, Commissioner.[35]
I Sarah Sargent Administratrix to ye estate of my father William Sargent of Amsbery… ffor… a valuable some… payd by Thomas Stevens of ye same town… sell… unto ye sd Tho: Stevens ye one half of a fower acre lott… in Salisbury called… highly pigly”. The deed is dated 17 Dec. 1681, signed by Tho Sargent, Mary Challis and Wm Sargent, and was witness by Thomas Frame and William Challis
Mary Holman and Bob Anderson noted that in all the probate records there is no mention of William’s widow Joanna. They suspected that there was a prenuptual agreement between William and Joanna so he did not mention her in the will (pp 1631-32).[5]

Sources

↑ 1.0 1.1 Anderson, Robert Charles. (2015) Great Migration Directory (The). Immigrants to New Englnad, 1620-1640. A Concise Compendium. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, p.296.
↑ Holman, Mary Lovering, "Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury" Rumford Press, Concord, 1938- Vol. I, pp. 119-22
↑ Ferris, Mary Walton, "Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines." (n.p., 1931) 1:486
↑ 4.0 4.1 Hoyt, David Webster, "The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury Massachusetts," 3 vols. (Providence, R.I., 1897-1919) 2:310-11
↑ 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 Anderson, Robert Charles. "William Sargent," Featured name. The Great Migration Begins. Ancestry.com (Boston, MA: NEHGS, 1995) AmericanAncestors.org (Vol III, pp. 1630-33)
↑ The Winthrop Papers- Vol. III, p. 141
↑ Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, 1628-1686- Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Boston, 1853-1854, MBCR- Vol. I, p. 103
↑ Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, 1628-1686- Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Boston, 1853-1854, MBCR- Vol. I, p. 236
↑ Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire- Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton Libby and Walter Goodwin Davis, Anthosensen Press 1928-1939, Portland- p. 55
↑ Focus on Salisbury- Great Migration Newsletter- Vol. VIII, p. 28
↑ Old Norfolk County Deeds- Vol. III, p. 5
↑ Old Norfolk County Deeds- Vol. I, p. 19
↑ Old Norfolk County Deeds- Vol. I, p. 21
↑ Old Norfolk County Deeds- Vol. I, p. 84
↑ Old Norfolk County Deeds- Vol. II, p. 157
↑ Old Norfolk County Deeds- Vol. II, p. 153
↑ Old Norfolk County Deeds- Vol. II, p. 153
↑ Old Norfolk County Deeds- Vol. II, p. 201
↑ Old Norfolk County Deeds- Vol. III, p. 25
↑ Old Norfolk County Deeds- Vol. III, p. 5
↑ Ipswich Land Records-MSS at the Essex County Courthouse, Salem- Vol. 3, p. 284
↑ Old Norfolk County Deeds- Vol. II, p. 312
↑ Essex County Deeds- Vol. 10, p. 58
↑ Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1636-1686- Salem 1911- 1975- Vol. 1, pp. 223, 251, 377, 385; Vol. IV, pp. 128, 235
↑ Essex County Probate Records- Vol. I, pp. 148, 425, 442
↑ Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1636-1686- Salem 1911- 1975- Vol. I, p. 55
↑ Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1636-1686- Salem 1911- 1975- Vol. I, p. 147
↑ Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1636-1686- Salem 1911- 1975- Vol. I, p. 205
↑ Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, 1636-1686- Salem 1911- 1975- Vol. III, p. 1633
↑ JeaniesGenealogy web page
↑ William Richard Cutter, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Volume 2, (Boston: Lewis Publishing Co., 1908) 863, digital images, Google Books (books.google.com : accessed 26 Feb 2017)
↑ Anderson, Robert Charles, "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633," Vol 1-3, database with images, American Ancestors (https://www.americanancestors.org : accessed 26 Feb 2017) p. 1431, entry for John Perkins
↑ George Francis Dow, Records and files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, vol. 4, 1667-1671 (Salem, Mass: Essex Institute, 1914)129, digital images, Archive (https://www.archives.org : accessed 26 Feb 2017
↑ Essex County Probate Records- Vol. II, pp. 438-40
↑ Essex County Probate Files, Docket #24708, unfortunately, the inventory is now missing from the file at the court house in Salem; the copy is Norfolk Records, vol. 3, part 2, pp. 6, 7, 11
See Also:

First Settlers of Amesbury Plaque. Ancestry.com #43226990_125615521305
"A Sketch of the History of Newbury, Newburyport,..."; Ancestry.com
Records about William Sargent, Sr. 1611-1675. Ancestry.com
Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England (Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1862)
Ancestry Family Trees (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com) Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.
Early Settlers of Salisbury, Massachusetts Asa W. Brown, NEHGR Vol. 7 (1853), pp. 311-4, Vol. 8 (1854), pp. 79-82, 157-162| Page 162
Early Settlers of Essex and Old Norfolk- Joshua Coffin, NEHGR- Vol. 6 (1852), pp. 205-8, 243-254, 339-346, Vol. 7 (1853), pp. 83, 357-360, Vol. 8 (1854), pp. 49-54 | Page 50
List of Freemen. Lucius R. Paige, NEHGR Vol. 3 (1849), pp. 89-96, 187-194, 239-246, 345-352
Sargent Record (St. Johnsbury, Vt., Caledonian Co., 1899) Pages 17-21
Oaths of Freemen, Allegiance, &c. in Old Norfolk County- Alonzo H. Quint, NEHGR- Vol. 6 (1852), pp. 201-4
Original Settlers of Salisbury, Massachusetts Thornton, NEHGR Vol. 3 (1849), p. 55
The Colby Family in Early America: Early Generations of Descendants of Anthony Colby of Boston, Cambridge, Salisbury, Massachusetts 1595-1661 Frederick Lewis Weis, Colonial Press, Concord, 1970
English Background of George and Margery Wathen of Salem and Their Nephew William Sargent of Gloucester- Clifford Stott NEHGR, AmericanAncestors.org Vol. 148, pp. 67-78
A New Look At The Corwin And Shatswell Families David MacDonald, NEHGR- Vol. 150, pp. 180- 9 (Apr. 1996)
The 1638 Emigration of William Sargent and George Curwen- John Brandon, NEHGR- Vol. 163, pp. 192-3 (July 2009)

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