Ephraim Frost, Sr.

• 'The Frost family in England and America with special reference to Edmund Frost and some of his descendants (1909)
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  • EDMUND FROST OF CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
• Edmund Frost was born in the neighborhood of Hartest, County of Suffolk, England, about the year 1600. He must have early associated himself with the non-conformist or dissenting portion of the Protestant ......
• .... Edmund Frost married at Hartest, about the year 1630, a woman whose first name was "Thomasine." His first son, John, was born in England about the year 1632. In 1634 (October 16th), Edmund Frost, with his wife and son John, boarded the ship Great Hope (Captain Curling) at Ipswich, England, for Boston, Massachusetts. He was one of the leaders ....
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• His death occurred July 12, 1672.
• Through the courtesy of Mr. George Henry Frost of Plainfield, N. J., we present a full copy of the last will and testament of Edmund Frost : .....
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• 1. Edmund Frost, born in England about 1600; with wife Thomasine and infant child settled Cambridge, Mass., 1635. The date of his wife's death is uncertain, but sometime before 1669,. he married Reana Daniel (widow successively of James, Wm. Andrew, and Robert Daniel), who survived him.*
  • * Temple's "Genealogical Register of Framingham" states: "He married (2) about 1642, Mary ___ ; (3) Widow Reana Daniels." The records show that James and Mary were born after this date to Edmund and Thomasine Frost, showing Temple's statement to be in error.
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• CHILDREN :
  • 2. John, b. Eng., about 1632.
  • 3. Thomas, b. 1st mo. 1637, O. S. (Mar., 1637); d. 1639.
  • 4. Samuel, b. 12th mo. 1638, O. S. (Feb., 1639).
  • 5. Joseph, b. 13, 11, 1639, O. S. (Jan. 13, 1640).
  • 6. James, b. 9, 2, 1643, O. S. (Apr. 9, 1643).
  • 7. Mary, b. 24, 5, 1645, O. S. (July 24, 1645).
  • ' 8. Ephraim, b. 1646, or later.
  • 9. Thomas, b. 1647, or later.
  • 10. Sarah, b. 1653.
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• 'Genealogical Frost record (1906?])
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• And from the Genealogical Register, History of Cambridge, the following:
• "Frost, Edmund, Ruling Elder of the Church in Camb., came here in 1635, and by w. Thomasine, had John, b. in England about 1634; Thomas, b. Ap. 1637, d. young; Samuel, b. Feb. 1637-8; Joseph, b. 13 Jan. 1638-9; James, b. 9 Ap. 1640; Mary, b. 24 July, 1645; Ephraim; Thomas; Sarah, b. 1653. Elder Frost bought of Thomas Blodgett, about 1639, an estate on the westerly side of Dunster Street, between Harvard Square and Mount Auburn Street, which he sold soon afterwards to wid. Catherine Haddon; he then bought a house on the Westerly side of ....
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• His w. Thomasine d. and before 1669 he m. wid. Reana Daniel, who survived him. He died 12 July, 1672, leaving to his children the example of a godly life."
• From other sources it appears that he was married three times, the second wife named Mary, and that Edmund in his will named all of his eight living children; ....
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• .... The children married and settled, so far as the records show, as follows:
  • John, married Rebeca Andrew and lived in Salem. Was a mason.
  • Samuel m. Mary ____ , lived in Billerica.
  • Joseph m. Hannah Miller, lived Charlestown.
  • James m. Rebecca Hamlet, lived in Bellerica.
  • ' Ephraim, m. Hepzibah , lived in Cambridge on the homestead on the northerly side of Kirkland Street.
  • Thomas, m. Mary Goodridge, lived in Sudbury.
  • Stephen, m. Elizabeth Woodward, lived in Charlestown.
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• 'Historic homes and places and genealogical and personal memoirs relating to the families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts ; (1908)
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• Edmund Frost, of Cambridge, died there July 12, 1672; his wife Thomasin died before 1669; he married (second) the widow. Reana Daniel, previously the widow of Robert Daniel, of Cambridge, William Andrew, of Cambridge, and Edmund James, of Watertown. He was the well known ruling elder of the church of Cambridge, of whom General Goffe, one of the Regicides who came into New England with his comrade Whaley in his journal, descriptive of his residence in Cambridge, said, under the date of twenty-third of the sixth month, 1660 — "In the evening we visited Elder Frost, who received us with great kindness and love, esteeming it a favor that we would come into their mean habitation: assured us of his fervent prayers to the Lord for us; — A glorious saint makes a mean cottage a stately palace. Were I to make my choice, I would rather abide with this saint in his poor cottage, than with any one of the princes that I know of at this day in the world."
• Elder Frost appeared in Cambridge as early as 1635. The historian of that town, among many other things, says that he possessed "little besides his homestead, and his pressing wants were relieved by the Church." His descendants in Cambridge have been numerous. His will, dated April 16. 1672, named his wife Reana: sons 'Ephraim', Thomas, John and Joseph: and daughters Sarah
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• and Mary; he also left legacies to Jacob French and his wife; to the children of Golden Moore, to Harvard College and to Mr. Alcock's son there. The inventory of his widow Reana was taken January 3, 1675.
• Children; 1. John, born in England, about 1634, married, June 26. 1666, Rebecca Andrew; he died before September 30, 1672, and his widow married (second), February 9, 1674, George Jacobs, Junior, of Salem, and was imprisoned during the witchcraft delusion. 2. Thomas, born at Cambridge, April, 1637, died young. 3. Samuel, born February, 1637-38, married (first), October 12, 1663, Mary Cole, married (second) Elizabeth Miller, married, (third) Ruth ; resided at Cambridge and Billerica. 4. Joseph, born January 13, 1638-39, married. May 22, 1666, Hannah Miller, resided at Charlestown. 5. James, born April 9, 1640, married (first), December 17, 1664, Rebecca Hamlet, married (second), January 22, 1666-67, Elizabeth Foster. 6. Mary, born July 24, 1645-47. '7. Ephraim, see forward'. 8. Thomas, married November 12, 1678, Mary Goodridge, resided at Sudbury, 9. Sarah, born 1653.
• ' (II) Ephraim Frost, son of Edmund Frost (I), died at Cambridge, January 2, 1717-18, aged seventy-two years; married Hephzibah ; she survived her husband. He resided on the homestead of his father on the northerly side of Kirtland street in old Cambridge. He was a soldier in King Philip's war in 1676. Children: 1. Mary, born May 20, 1678, married ___ Howard. 2. Sarah, married. May 17, 1720. Nathaniel Patten, of Cambridge, and died at Menotomy, August 11, 1748, aged seventy-eight years. 3. Edmund, born March 14, 1679-80, married, February 1, 1710-11, Hannah Cooper, of Cambridge. 4. Ephraim, born September 23, 1682, married, September 9, 1714, Sarah Cooper, of Cambridge. 5. Thomas, born 1689, see forward. 6. Ebenezer, baptized January 17, 1696-97, married, July 2, 1723, Deborah Martin.
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