Ezekiel Needham

http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/l/a/b/Robert-A-Labelle/GENE8-0003.html 6.EZEKIEL3 NEEDHAM (EDMUND2, JOHN1)

EZEKIELwas born July 31, 1644 in Probably Lynn, Essex, Massachusett, and died Aft. August 10, 1697 in Dover, Delaware.He married SARAH KING October 27, 1669 in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts.

Notes for EZEKIEL NEEDHAM: In the Lynn Vital Records Ezekiel and his family go by the name Neadom. In 1661 Ezekiel Needham was an apprentice as a shoemaker and was living with Benjamin Briscoe (Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts, III:32).He was, however, a man of various occupations.In the Essex County Registry of Deeds, he discribes himself as a "gentleman" in 1667/8, a "tanner" in 1678, a "yoeman" in 1685 and a cordwainer or shoemaker in 1686.He also owned several vessels and was a trader. By 1686, Ezekiel Neeham had moved to that part of Pennsylvania that was soon know as Delaware.

Children of EZEKIEL NEEDHAM and SARAH KING are: 15. i. EDMUND4 NEEDHAM, b. August 02, 1670, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts; d. Aft. November 15, 1705, Probably Kent Count, Delaware.

	ii.	 	CHILD NEEDHAM, b. April 1673, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts; d. April 1673, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts.

	iii.	 	SARAH NEEDHAM, b. May 27, 1674, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts.

	iv.	 	EZEKIEL NEEDHAM, b. December 1676, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts; d. December 1676, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts.

	v.	 	EZEKIEL NEEDHAM, b. November 15, 1677, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts.

	vi.	 	DANIEL NEEDHAM, b. March 15, 1679/80, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts. '''16.	vii.	 	RALPH NEEDHAM, b. August 26, 1682, Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts; d. Bef. March 16, 1751/52, Duck Creek, Kent County, Delaware.'''''''