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About John Jepson
- from A History & Genealogy of John Jepson 1610-1917, by Norton W. Jipson MD:
JOHN JEPSON, who was born 1610 (see deposition Suffolk Co., Deeds 1655) birthplace and parentage unknown, d. 1687, was granted a "great lot at the Mount, for three heads, at the rate of three shillings an acre; upon the entrance of the platform or bounders thereof after surveying of it and that to be at the next towne meeting thereunto." (See Book of Possessions, page 41), was a member of the First Church of Boston, was made a citizen of the town in 1647, was by occupation a cordwainer [shoemaker]; in 1670 was appointed sealer of leather, was fined for giving employment to John Everson, a man who had been blacklisted by the Colony. In 1676 was on a committee appointed by the general court to see that the law restricting the drinking of liquor be enforced.
He owned a piece of land 42 feet wide and 155 feet long on the Mill Creek which ran from the harbor to the Mill Pond, nearly upon the line of the present Blackstone Street [present Haymarket area]. The Mill Creek end of the lot was occupied by a wharf and a shop adjoining same and Paddy's Alley [near the present Central Artery/Tunnel project]. He deeded this lot to his son John in 1685 for a consideration of eighty pounds.
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John Jepson's Timeline
1608 |
1608
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Guildford, Surrey, , England
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1651 |
October 4, 1651
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Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
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1657 |
March 1, 1657
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Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
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1658 |
June 2, 1658
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Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
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1660 |
June 14, 1660
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Boston, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
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1661 |
May 8, 1661
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Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
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1663 |
November 5, 1663
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Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
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1667 |
1667
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Mendon, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
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1673 |
September 20, 1673
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Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
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