Damaris Cudworth

Damaris Cradock

• Born: 28 Oct 1623 - of St. Swithin, London Stone, Cannon Street, London, Middlesex, England
• Baptized: 1 November 1623 - St. Swithin’s Canongate, London, on 1 Nov 1623
• Died: before Nov 1695
• Buried  15 Nov 1695  High Laver, Essex, England  
• Parents: Matthew Craddock, Damaris Winn

Damaris was the only surviving child of Gov. Matthew Cradock. Named in his 1642 will - 1/3 share of his estate.

Family

Married

1. in 1642 in St. Swithin, London Stone, London, Middlesex, England to Thomas Andrews, leather seller of London.
2. Before 1658 to Dr. Ralph Cudworth; his 2nd wife

Children by her 1st marriage include  

1. Damaris Andrews,   b. 1643,   d. Yes, date unknown
2. Mathew Andrews,   d. Yes, date unknown
3. Richard Andrews,   d. Yes, date unknown
4. John Andrews,   d. Yes, date unknown
5. Thomas Andrews,  , of, St. Peter, Cornhill, London, Middlesex, England ,   bur. 28 Apr 1687, St. Peter-le-Poor, London, Middlesex, England
6. Samuel Andrews,   d. Yes, date unknown

Children by her 2nd marriage include

1. Damaris Cudworth (18 Jan 1658-20 Apr 1708)
2. Charles Cudworth (-1684)
3. John Cudworth (-1726)
4. Ralph Cudworth (ca 1650-1690)

Notes

From  Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. Matthew Cradock, by Walter K. Watkins of Malden. [Read before the Medford Historical Society, February 7, 1903.]

The will of Matthew Cradock dated November 9, 1640 is recorded in Middlesex, Mass. Probate records, under date of February 12, 1662. In it he mentions his [p. 15] wife Rebecca, and daughter Damaris, who each receive one half his estate, the widow a life interest only, to go on her death to his brother Rev. Samuel Cradock, or his heirs. On the widow's and daughter's marriage their husbands were to give sureties not to sell or alienate the estate. He names his nephew Samuel who was then a student at Emanuel College. He names his sister Sawyer and her daughter Dorothy. He gives his partners Thomas Hodlow and Edward Lewis in the Eastland trade, £ 600 each.

From Whitmore: Notes on the Cradock family.  The New England Historical & Genealogical Register and Antiquarian Journal, Volume 9 (Google eBook) S.G. Drake, 1855 - Genealogy.  Page 125.  "Matthew Cradock's Will"

.....And for the other moyty of my estate in New England aforesaid, I hereby give and bequeath the same to my daughter Damaris and the issue of her body to be lawfully begotten; and for want of such issue, to my said Brother Samuel and his lleyres male aforesaid. And my will is that when my wife shall marry, that in such case her then intended husband before their marriage shall become bound to my said Brother Samuel and his Heyres in five thousand pounds of lawfull money of England, not [to sell away or alienate any party of the moyty of my lands hereby intended and bequeathed to my wife and subsequently to him dureing her natural! life, and that he shall have at the time of her decease in personal! estate therefor, my Brother and his Heyres to injoy after the decease of my said wife,—at least for the vallue of five hundred pounds sterlinge in moveable goods. And whosoever shall marry my daughter Damaris, I do hereby Will and order that before marriage hee likewise shall enter into like bond, with the like covenants and conditions. In case my said daughter depart this life with out issue, or either of the partyes before mentioned, both or either of them hereby enjoyned to scale the said several! bond, which shall refuse or neglect to do the same, or to deliver the said bond or bonds to my Brother of his Heyres then being, in legal and lawfull maner; — I do hereby declare that immediately from and after such mariage respectively the moyty of the estate hereby intended to the party so marrying and not giving bond as aforesaid shall bee, and 1 do hereby bequeath the same, to my said Brother Samuel and his Heyres; any thing before mentioned to the contrary notwithstanding.,...

From History of the Town of Medford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts: From Its First Settlement, in 1630, to the Present Time, 1855 (Google eBook) Charles Brooks, William Henry Whitmore J.M. Usher, 1855 - Medford (Mass.) - 576 pages.  Page 41.

It will be interesting here to see how the heirs of Mr. Cradock disposed of his large estate, and to trace how it came into the hands of Medford settlers.

Mr. Cradock's widow, Rebecca, married Richard Glover, who, March 1, 1644, rented to Edward Collins one-half of his land "in Medford in New England;" viz., "houses, edifices, buildings, barns, stables, out-houses, lands, tenements, meadows, pastures, findings, woods, highways, profits, commodities, and appurtenances."
Mr. Cradock's widow married her third husband, Rev. Benj. Whitchcot, D.D., in 1652. 

Damaris, Mr. Cradock's daughter, married Thomas Andrews, leather-seller, of London. Samuel, his brother, was elder of Chapleton, and had three sons. By instruments, .dated June 2 and Sept. 6, 1652, they quit-claim to Mr. Collins "all that messuage, farm, or plantation, called Meadford in New England" by them owned.

Aug. 20, 1656: Mr. Collins, after residing twelve years on his farm in Medford, sells to Richard Russell of Charlestown, sixteen hundred acres of it, with his mansion-house and other buildings. This track was bounded by Mystic River on the south, by Charlestown line on the north, by trees standing near a brook on the west, and by the farms of Nowell and others on the east. "Collins covenants to save Russell harmless from all claims from the heirs of Cradock, unto whom the said plantation was first granted " by the Court. No specification is given of the number of "cattle" or of "tenements." At this time, Mr. Collins deeds other portions of his farm to other persons. ...

From http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/2005-05/...

Damaris has married your Orator Thomas Andrewes.

From http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/2005-05/...

Looks like NEHGR, 64:85, offers a small correction to the new ODNB sketch of Dr. Ralph Cudworth, which states:

"In the same year he [Cudworth] married Damaris Andrewes, the wealthy widow of Thomas Andrewes of New Fish Street, London. She may have been the daughter of Matthew Cradock, a London merchant.

Through her first marriage she had a son, Thomas Andrewes, who was a fellow of Christ's College from 1669 to 1675, and a daughter, Damaris, who married Edward Abney, who was a fellow of the college from 1655 to 1661.

Through her marriage to Cudworth she had at least three sons, John, Charles, and Thomas, and a daughter, also called Damaris."

The NEHGR says,

"Thomas Andrews and Damaris Craddock had a daughter Damaris. This granddaughter of Gov. Craddock married Sir Edward Abney. 'Edward Abney of Wilsley, Co. Derby, gent, bachr aged 29 second son of James Abney of the same. Esqr. and Damaris Andrewes Spinr. about 18 dau. of Thomas Andrewes the younger, late of St Margaret's, New Fish Street, London, dec'd, with consent of her mother, Damaris Cudworth, alias Andrewes, now wife of Dr. Ralph Cudworth, Master of Christ's College, Cambridge ...'."

So it seems certain that Matthew Craddock's daughter Damaris married second to Ralph Cudworth, as Chancery Bills and Answers, Charles I., A51:60 (cited on same page of NEHGR) shows that Damaris, wife of Thomas Andrewes, is identical with Damaris, daughter of Matthew Craddock.

Links

• https://histfam.familysearch.org//getperson.php?personID=I233136&tr...
• http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/gen/report/rr03/rr03_102.html

Sources

1. Whitmore: Notes on the Cradock family.  The New England Historical & Genealogical Register and Antiquarian Journal, Volume 9 (Google eBook) S.G. Drake, 1855 - Genealogy.  Page 123.  
2. Pedigrees with Index of London Citizens, abt. 1600-1800 (filmed 1954), Boyd, Percival, compiler, (Microfilm copy of manuscripts at Somerset House, London. Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1954), FHL microfilms 94,515-94,593., vol. 424 no. 42891, FHL microfilm 94616.