Edmund Grover, Sr.

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Grover, Edmund-Prudence Billington-Margaret Grover, Edmund-Prudence Billington-Margaret Grover, Edmund-Prudence Billington-Margaret Grover, Edmund-Prudence Billington-Margaret. 0 Footnote Grover, Edmund-Prudence Billington-Margaret ShortFootnote Grover, Edmund-Prudence Billington-Margaret Bibliography Grover, Edmund-Prudence Billington-Margaret.

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Page Edmund Grover Born: c. 1600 Religion: Puritan Occupation: shoemaker (cordwainer) Residence: London, England Immigrated: c. 1632 Note: Qualifying ancestor, Winthrop Society. Residence: Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts Church: First Church At: Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts Naturalized: December 3, 1677 Note: Oath of Allegiance Died: June 11, 1682 At: Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts Marriage 1: February 1626 At: Southwark St. Saviour, London, England Note: Southwark Cathedral Spouse 1: Prudence Billington Religion: Puritan Residence: London, England

Known issue: 1. John [see Grover, John and Sarah Barney].

Marriage 2: c. 1644 At: Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts Spouse 2: Margaret

Known issue: 1. Nehemiah, born circa 1644. Married Ruth Haskell 02 Dec 1674 in Beverly, Essex County, Massachusetts. Died 12 Feb 1694 in Beverly. 2. Naomi, baptized 17 May 1646 in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts. 3. Mary, baptized 17 May 1646 in Salem. Married Anthony Wood 11 Jun 1666 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts. 4. Lydia [see Herrick, Henry Jr]. 5. Deborah, baptized 26 Mar 1648 in Salem. Married Deac. John Bennet. Died 22 Mar 1718 in Middleborough, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.

Primary sources: 1. New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635. Robert Charles Anderson. 2. Salem Witchcraft. Vol. I. Charles Wentworth Upham. Published by Wiggin and Lunt. Boston, Mass. 1867. 3. Vital Records of Beverly, Massachusetts. 4. Parish Registers of Southwark Cathedral, London. 5. Parish Registers of the Church of St. Nicholas Acons, London.

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New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635 Robert Charles Anderson, New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635 Robert Charles Anderson, New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635 Robert Charles Anderson. New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635. 0 Footnote Robert Charles Anderson, New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635 ShortFootnote Robert Charles Anderson, New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635 Bibliography Robert Charles Anderson. New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635.

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Page Edmund Grover. Origin: unknown. Migration: 1633. First residence: Salem. Removes: Beverly. Occupation: cordwainer.

Freeman: "Edmund Grovver, cordwinder," took the oath of fidelity at Beverly 3 December 1677 [EQC 6:401].

Education: Made his mark to deposition of 14 November 1664 [EQC 3:221].

Offices: Coroner's jury into the death of William Ellet, June Term, 1660 [EQC 2:223].

Estate: In the 1636 Salem land division "Edm: Grover" received twenty acres [STR 1:23]. In the 1637 division, "Ed: Grover" received half an acre with a household of two [STR 1:102]. At the 13 February 1642/3 Salem town meeting, Edmond Grover was granted two little parcels of fresh meadow of about an acre and a half near Beaver Pond [STR 1:117]. At the 21 January 1649 Salem town meeting, Edmond Grover was granted forty acres [STR 1:163]. Grover was granted that spot of ground between his own ten acre lot and Henry Herrick's in recompence for his land taken for a highway [STR 1:167-8]. Along with many other Salem men, "Goodman Grover Sr." was on a Topsfield list of "those that are in a rate to defray the town's debts," 10 February 1664 [EQC 3:386]. (The designation of "Sr." here does not imply that there was a younger Edmond Grover, but only a younger Goodman Grover, and his son John appears just after him in the list.) On 3 July 1677 "Edmund Grover of Beverly, yeoman," granted to Nehemiah Grover for love and natural affection "five acres of land or my houselot," twenty acres of land next to the farm that was formerly Roger Hascall's, and five acres of land on the east side of Beaver Pond [ELR 6:52]. Edmund Grover died intestate and his son, Nehemiah Grover, was appointed administrator, 2 August 1682 [EQC 8:369]. The inventory of the estate of "Edmand Grover" was taken 2 August 1682 by William Rayment and Exercise Conant, and was valued at £3 14s., but owed £4 10s.; it contained no real estate [EQC 8:369].

Birth: About 1600 (deposed June 1660 aged about sixty years [EQC 2:220], March 1671, aged about seventy years [EQC 4:332] and 10 October 1678, aged 78 years [EQC 49:17]).

Death: Beverly 11 June 1682 "aged about 82 years."

Marriage: (1) By about 1628; not seen in New England. (2) By about 1640 Margaret; "Margaret Grover" joined the Salem church 3 May 1646, with the later annotation "dead" [SChR 12]. "The wife of Ed. Grover" was a witness in the adultery case of Gervase Garford and Elizabeth Simonds, February Term, 1648/9 [EQC 1:159].

Children: With first wife. i. John, b. about 1628 (deposed 28 March 1671 aged forty-three years [EQC 4:332]; d. Beverly August 1716, aged 88 years); m. Salem 13 May 1656 Sarah Barney, daughter of Jacob Barney [GDMNH 291]. (Janet Ireland Delorey believes this John was baptized 16 April 1628 at St. Nicholas Acons, London, son of Edmund and Prudence Grover [TG 10:129-30].) With second wife. ii. Nehemiah, b. about 1644 (deposed November Term, 1677, aged about thirty years [EQC 6:349]; d. Beverly 12 February 1693/4 aged "about fifty years"); m. Beverly 2 December 1674 Ruth Haskell. iii. Naomi, bp. Salem 17 May 1646 [SChR 21]; no further record (but probably the same as Nehemiah above). iv. Mary, bp. Salem 17 May 1646 [SChR 21]; m. Ipswich 11 June 1666 Anthony Wood. v. Lydia, bp. Salem 17 May 1646 [SChR 21]; living 1660 [EQC 2:222]. vi. Deborah, bp. Salem 26 March 1648 [SChR 21]; said to have m. about 1671 John Bennett [Savage 1:167-68]. ("Deborah Bennet widow of Deacon John Bennet" d. at Middleborough 22 March 1717/8, aged seventy years [MiddleVR 1:30], which is the correct age.)

Comments: On 10 October 1678, during the seemingly endless haggling over the boundaries of John Endicott's estate, Edmund Grover, aged 78 years, deposed that "above forty-five years since I ... wrought much upon Governor Endecott's farm called Orchard" [EQC 9:54]. This places Grover in Salem by 1633 or earlier, and is the only indication we have that he was in New England before 1636. Edmund Grover was one of those "belonging to the Church and Town of Salem" who petitioned to be able to erect a new town at Jeffrey's Creek, 13 May 1640 [EQC 7:201]. Two weeks after she joined the Salem church in 1646, Margaret Grover had baptized "Naomie, Mary and Liddea, children of Edmond Grover" [SChR 21]. Assuming that these children were born at the usual two-year intervals, the earliest would have been born about 1642. From his age at death Nehemiah would have been born about 1644, from which we would expect him to be among those baptized in 1646. It may be that "Naomie" (for whom there is no other record) is really Nehemiah in disguise. The 1637 Salem grant numbered Edmund Grover's household as only two. This could have been Edmund and his eldest son, John. His wife may have followed from England later, or he may have been a widower at that date. In June 1638 Edmund Grover sued Thomas Scruggs and William Alford and won a verdict of seventeen bushels of corn at harvest [EQC 1:8]. Among the neighbors who witnessed against Hugh Laskin and his wife at court in July 1644 for "hard usage" of their young servant, Edmund Grover "said he had come to their house and ... [the servant boy] had eaten nothing that day" [EQC 1:69]. Edmond Grover, aged about sixty years, deposed that two years ago when Roger Haskell was constable, he demanded his rate twice, June Term, 1660 [EQC 2:220]. This deposition had some bearing on the removal of a "landmark" of Edmond Grover's. Many persons came forward to depose about the fact that Roger Haskell had removed the landmark at Bass River [EQC 2:342]. Joane Hibbert was fined for saying that "Liddea Grover" and Mary Grover were the "veriest liars at Bass River & they were able to lie the devil out of Hell," June Term, 1660 [EQC 2:222]. At court November Term, 1660, Edmond Grover deposed that he was a near neighbor to Jonathan and Eunice Porter, and that Eunice was more willing to sell her house to Osmond Trask than Jonathan was [EQC 2:251]. Trask evidently bought the house, for at November Term, 1664, Trask was fined for rescuing his hogs and cattle from Edmund Grover as Grover drove them from his corn into the pound [EQC 3:221].

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Salem Witchcraft. Vol. I Charles Wentworth Upham, Salem Witchcraft. Vol. I Charles Wentworth Upham, Salem Witchcraft. Vol. I Charles Wentworth Upham. Salem Witchcraft. Vol. I. Published by Wiggin and Lunt. Boston, Mass. 1867 0 Footnote Charles Wentworth Upham, Salem Witchcraft. Vol. I ShortFootnote Charles Wentworth Upham, Salem Witchcraft. Vol. I Bibliography Charles Wentworth Upham. Salem Witchcraft. Vol. I.

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Page Nov. 10, 1678, Edmund Grover, seventy-eight years old, testified, "that, above forty-five years since, I, this deponent, wrought much upon Governor Endicott's farm, called Orchard, and did, about that time, help to cut and cleave about seven thousand palisadoes, as I remember, and was the first that made improvement thereof, by breaking up of ground and planting of Indian-corn." The land was granted to Endicott in July, 1632; and the work in which Grover, with others, was engaged, commenced undoubtedly forthwith.

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Vital Records of Beverly, Massachusetts Vital Records of Beverly, Massachusetts Vital Records of Beverly, Massachusetts Vital Records of Beverly, Massachusetts. 0 Footnote Vital Records of Beverly, Massachusetts ShortFootnote Vital Records of Beverly, Massachusetts Bibliography Vital Records of Beverly, Massachusetts.

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Page Edmund Grover, Aged aboute Eighty two years, Deceased on the Eleauenth Day of June Anno: Domine 1682.

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Page Qualifying ancestor: Winthrop Society.