Francis Plummer, of Newbury

Francis Plummer

• birth: 1594 in England or Wales. "of" Woolwich, England
• Wives: Ruth, Ann, widow of William Palmer, Beatrice, widow of William C. Cantlebury
• death: 17 Jan 1673 in Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts (by the Parker River)

Y-DNA: Francis Plummer and his male-line descendants were R1b1a2. No relation to Thomas Plummer of Anne Arundel, haplotype was G (probably G2a3b1). On the other hand he is a pretty good genetic match to Richard Plommer (1570-1640), who may have been an uncle or other close male-line relative.

From James Savage’s A Genealogical Dictionary of The First Settlers of New England, 
Before 1692
 Volume #3
Pinney - Plummer :

FRANCIS PLUMER, Newbury 1635, linen weaver, came in 1633 from Woolwich, near London, but another source says from Wales; we know not in which town he first inhabited but he was a freeman. In 14 May 1634, he brought wife Ruth, who died 18 Aug. 1647, and seven children for certain Samuel and Joseph. He married 31 Mar. 1648, widow Ann Palmer, who died 18 Oct. 1665; and he married third, 29 Nov. following, Beatrice widow of William Cantlebury, and d. 17 Jan.1673.

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He was born in England (or Wales) and came to New England as an indentured servant ca. 1633, and was declared a freeman in Newbury on May 14, 1634.

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Francis and his family sailed on the Hector from London to MA in 1635.

Francis with his wife and their two oldest sons sailed upriver with the first group of settlers to settle in the Newbury location. It is said that he was the second person to land. He acquired quite a bit of land there. He owned a tavern (inn) there for a while around 1635.

(from wikipedia we have the following)
"Newbury Plantation was settled and incorporated in 1635. The Rev. Thomas Parker and cousin Rev. James Noyes along with his brother Nicholas Noyes led a group of approximately 100 pioneers from Wiltshire, England. They sailed from the River Thames aboard the ship Mary and John, first landing in Agawam (now Ipswich) in 1634. They arrived the next spring at the Quascacunquen River, now the Parker River. A commemorative stone marks the spot where Nicholas Noyes was the first of the new settlers to leap ashore at Newbury. The site had once been a village of the Pawtucket Indians, who hunted, fished or farmed. Many settlers would do the same. In 1791, 3,000 head of cattle grazed town lands, or on the region's abundant salt marsh hay. Other trades included tanning and shipbuilding. Newbury originally included Newburyport, set off in 1764, and West Newbury, set off in 1819."

more at: http://archive.org/details/plummersystemofg00plum

"the farm on which he first settled was owned and cultivated by his descendants" five of his descendants and bearing his name have been members of Congress"

"One of them, George, son of Jonathan was the first 'white' child born in Pennsylvania, west of the Alleghany Mountains."

"coffin's HISTORY OF Newbury says: ' Of the first settlers in Newbury, uniform tradition asserts that they came by water from Ipswich, then Agawam, through Plum Island Sound, and up the RIver Quatcacunquen, now the Parker RIver, to the place they had selected as their future habitation. Tradition asserts that hey landed on the north bank of the river, about one hundred rods below the spot where the bridge now stands, and that Nicolas Noyes was the first person who jumped ashhore. Francis Plumer, followed by his wife and two sons, samuel and Joseph, were the next to go ashore' ."

Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s about Joseph Plummer Name: Joseph Plummer Year: 1633 Place: Massachusetts Family Members: Wife Ruth; Son Joseph; Daughter Hannah; Son Samuel Source Publication Code: 116.1 Primary Immigrant: Plummer, Francis Annotation: Date and place of first residence in New England. Extracted from passenger lists, lists of freemen, colony and court records, notarial records, vital records, land records, church records, and journals and letters. Place of origin, occupation, and other genealogical and historical information may also be provided. Source Bibliography: ANDERSON, ROBERT CHARLES. The Great Migration Begins, Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. Three Volumes. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995. 2386p. Page: 1482

•~• "The sturgions be all over the Countrey, but the best catching of them be upon the shoales of Cape Codde and in the River of Mirritnacke where much is taken, pickled and brought for England, some of them be 12, 14, 18 foote long."

•~• (Summer of 1635) "A house lot of four acres, with the right of pasturage, was assigned to the poorest settlers ; fifty acres were allotted to every person who paid for his own transportation to New England ; two hundred acres to every one contributing fifty pounds to the common stock ; and a larger or smaller number to other cash contributors in proportion to the amount invested by them.

"House lots and farm lots were laid out in the new settlement, and assigned to the freeholders of the town of Newbury as early as 1645. An order was adopted which, though somewhat vague and confusing, gives some of the details of the assignment, as follows : —

It is ordered (S: determined by tlie orderers of the Towne affairs that the plan of the new Towne is & shall be layd out by the lott lays as ye house lotts were determined by their choice beginning from the farthermost on the south street thence running threw the Pine swampe then up the high street numbering the lotts in the south street from the first to John Bartlett's lott the 27th then through the west side of the high street to Mr Lowles ye 28th & so to the end of the streete then running thro' field streete to Mr Woodmans ye 41st thence to the end of that street to John Cheneys ye 50th then turning to the first Cross street the west side of John Emery 51st thence coming up from the River side on the East side of the same street to the other street the west side to Daniel Pearses ye 57th & so to the River side on yt side the streete to Mr Clarke, whence from ye water side up the street on the East side to Francis Plumer 66th as hereunder by names & figures appended."

•~• When the landing party first came ashore they used boats called shallops: http://smith.npschesapeakebay.net/images/content/Smithshallop.gif

Holy Moly! Original Settler of Newbury, MA in 1642

http://newbury.essexcountyma.net/plumer.htm https://archive.org/stream/ouldnewburyhisto00curr/ouldnewburyhisto0...

Born by about 1594, based on estimated date of marriage. ("Francis Plumer of Newbury released from training, paying eight shillings per year to the use of the company," 27 September 1659. This implies that Plummer was not yet sixty years old, for at that age he would not have been required to pay anything to be dismissed from training. However, this would make him quite young at marriage, assuming that the age of his elder son is correctly estimated.) A linen weaver who came to Massachusetts Bay in 1633. First settled perhaps in Lynn or Ipswich; moved to Newbury in 1635. Died in Newbury, 17 January 1672/3. Married: (1) By about 1619 Ruth _____, who died at Newbury 17 or 18 August 1647. (2) Newbury 31 March 1648 Ann (_____) Palmer, widow of William. She died at Newbury on 18 October 1665. (3) Newbury 29 November 1665 Beatrice (Burt) Cantlebury, widow of William. She m. (3) by June 1676 Edward Berry of Salem. Francis said of her "that he lived so comfortable with her ... as a man would desire, and that if he had sought all the world over he could not have had a better wife." Source: Anderson's Great Migration Study Project.

Family links:

Spouses:

 Ruth Plummer (____ - 1647)

 Ann Palmer Plummer (____ - 1665)

 Beatrice Burt Cantlebury Plummer

Burial: Unknown Created by: Linda Mac Record added: Apr 01, 2009 Find A Grave Memorial# 35407755

GEDCOM Source

Ancestry.com Public Member Trees Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;; @R1@ Database online. Record for Samuel Plummer http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=1675...

GEDCOM Source

Ancestry.com Public Member Trees Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;; @R1@ Database online. Record for Samuel Plummer http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=1675...

GEDCOM Note

Francis and his family sailed on <b>the Hector </b> from London to MA in 1635. Francis with his wife and their two oldest sons sailed upriver with the first group of settlers to settle in the Newbury location. It is said that he was the second person to land. He acquired quite a bit of land there. He owned a tavern (inn) there for a while around 1635. (from wikipedia we have the following) "Newbury Plantation was settled and incorporated in 1635. The Rev. Thomas Parker and cousin Rev. James Noyes along with his brother Nicholas Noyes led a group of approximately 100 pioneers from Wiltshire, England. They sailed from the River Thames aboard <b>the ship Mary and John </b>, first landing in Agawam (now Ipswich) in 1634. They arrived the next spring at the Quascacunquen River, now the Parker River. A commemorative stone marks the spot where Nicholas Noyes was the first of the new settlers to leap ashore at Newbury. The site had once been a village of the Pawtucket Indians, who hunted, fished or farmed. Many settlers would do the same. In 1791, 3,000 head of cattle grazed town lands, or on the region's abundant salt marsh hay. Other trades included tanning and shipbuilding. Newbury originally included Newburyport, set off in 1764, and West Newbury, set off in 1819." more at: http://archive.org/details/plummersystemofg00plum "the farm on which he first settled was owned and cultivated by his descendants" five of his descendants and bearing his name have been members of Congress" "One of them, George, son of Jonathan was the first 'white' child born in Pennsylvania, west of the Alleghany Mountains." "coffin's HISTORY OF Newbury says: ' Of the first settlers in Newbury, uniform tradition asserts that they came by water from Ipswich, then Agawam, through Plum Island Sound, and up the RIver Quatcacunquen, now the Parker RIver, to the place they had selected as their future habitation. Tradition asserts that hey landed on the north bank of the river, about one hundred rods below the spot where the bridge now stands, and that Nicolas Noyes was the first person who jumped ashhore. Francis Plumer, followed by his wife and two sons, samuel and Joseph, were the next to go ashore' ." Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s about Joseph Plummer Name:Joseph Plummer Year:1633 Place:Massachusetts Family Members:Wife Ruth; Son Joseph; Daughter Hannah; Son Samuel Source Publication Code:116.1 <b>Primary Immigrant:Plummer, Francis </b> Annotation:Date and place of first residence in New England. Extracted from passenger lists, lists of freemen, colony and court records, notarial records, vital records, land records, church records, and journals and letters. Place of origin, occupation, and other genealogical and historical information may also be provided. Source Bibliography:ANDERSON, ROBERT CHARLES. The Great Migration Begins, Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. Three Volumes. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995. 2386p. Page:1482 •~• "The sturgions be all over the Countrey, but the best catching of them be upon the shoales of Cape Codde and in the River of Mirritnacke where much is taken, pickled and brought for England, some of them be 12, 14, 18 foote long." •~• (Summer of 1635) "A house lot of four acres, with the right of pasturage, was assigned to the poorest settlers ; fifty acres were allotted to every person who paid for his own transportation to New England ; two hundred acres to every one contributing fifty pounds to the common stock ; and a larger or smaller number to other cash contributors in proportion to the amount invested by them. "House lots and farm lots were laid out in the new settlement, and assigned to the freeholders of the town of Newbury as early as 1645. An order was adopted which, though somewhat vague and confusing, gives some of the details of the assignment, as follows : — It is ordered (S: determined by tlie orderers of the Towne affairs that the plan of the new Towne is & shall be layd out by the lott lays as ye house lotts were determined by their choice beginning from the farthermost on the south street thence running threw the Pine swampe then up the high street numbering the lotts in the south street from the first to John Bartlett's lott the 27th then through the west side of the high street to Mr Lowles ye 28th & so to the end of the streete then running thro' field streete to Mr Woodmans ye 41st thence to the end of that street to John Cheneys ye 50th then turning to the first Cross street the west side of John Emery 51st thence coming up from the River side on the East side of the same street to the other street the west side to Daniel Pearses ye 57th & so to the River side on yt side the streete to Mr Clarke, whence from ye water side up the street on the East side to <b>Francis Plumer </b> 66th as hereunder by names & figures appended."

GEDCOM Note

The Maryland and Massachusetts Plummer families are not related. Y-DNA haplotype of the Maryland family starts with G (probably G2a3b1). The Massachusetts family haplotype is the very common R1B1a2.