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John Simmons

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
Death: August 08, 1739 (69)
Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
Immediate Family:

Son of John Simmons, of Duxbury and Mercy Simmons
Husband of Anne Czrena Simmons; Susannah Simmons and Abigail Simmons
Father of Ebenezer Simmons; John Simmons; Ruth Simmons; Joel Simmons and Leah Simmons
Brother of William Simmons; Isaac Simmons, I; Patience Simmons; Martha West; Benjamin Simmons, Sr. and 4 others

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About John Simmons

Descendant of Mayflower passengers John and Priscilla Alden



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John Simmons 22 February 1671–6 August 1739

Birth • 0 Sources 22 February 1671 Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America

Age 68 Death • 0 Sources 6 August 1739 Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America

John Simmons, "Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910"

SPOUSES AND CHILDREN

John Simmons 1671-1739

Marriage: 9 July 1702 Little Compton, Newport, Rhode Island, British Colonial America

Abigail Richmond 1683-1702

Children (0)

PARENTS AND SIBLINGS

John Simmons 1647-1715

Marriage: 16 November 1669 Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America

Mercy Pabodie 1649-1728

Children (9)

John Simmons 1671-1739

William Simmons 1672-1765

Isaac Simmons 1674-1767 Martha Simmons Martha Simmons 1677-1754 Benjamin Simmons Benjamin Simmons 1678-1749 Moses Simmons Moses Simmons 1680-1761

Joseph Simmons 1682-1761

Rebecca Simmons 1685-1761

Joshua Simmons 1688-1774


Biography

John, son of John and Mercy (Pabodie) Simmons, was born at Duxbury, MA on February 22, 1670. He married first Abigail Richmond. She died three months after they married. He married second Susanna Tracy, who is the mother of his children. John died at Duxbury before August 6, 1739, the date his wife was appointed administratrix of his estate.

Event: Will Written. 18 APR 1733. Will Recorded. 12 MAY 1740.

Religion: Elder of Independent or Congregational "Circular" Church of Charles Town.

Occupation: Bricklayer.

Buried MAR 1737. SC

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Simmons-2503

John Simmons (1670 - bef. 1739)

John Simmons

Born 22 Feb 1670 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Son of John Simmons and Mercy (Pabodie) Simmons

Brother of William Simmons, Isaac Simmons Sr., Martha (Simmons) West, Benjamin Simmons, Joseph Simmons, Rebecca (Simmons) Southworth, Joshua Simmons and Moses Simmons

Husband of Abigail (Richmond) Simmons — married 9 Jul 1702 in Little Compton, Massachusetts

Husband of Susanna (Tracy) Simmons — married 4 Nov 1715 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts

Father of John Simmons, Ruth Simmons, Joel Simmons and Leah Simmons

Died before 6 Aug 1739 in Berkeley, Charles Town, South Carolina Colony

Simmons-2503 created 21 Mar 2013 | Last modified 1 Nov 2021

John Simmons was related to a passenger on the Mayflower.

Sources

Esther Littleford Woodworth-Barnes, comp., Alicia Crane Williams, ed., Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, John Alden, Volume 16, Part 1 of 5, (Plymouth: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2002), pp. 188-189
Vital Records of Duxbury, Massachusetts to the year 1850, (Boston: New England Historic Genealogial Society, 1911), p. 156 (birth); p. 307 (marriage to Susanna Tracy)
Source: S1 Abbreviation: Ancestral File (R) Title: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R) (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998) Repository: #R1 Repository: #R1
Repository: R1 Name: Family History Library Address: 35 N West Temple Street CONT Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA Address 1: 35 N West Temple Street Address 2: Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA
Information was taken from the Alden Kindred website [1]

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Charles Seamon for starting this profile.

Thank you to Claire Smith for creating WikiTree profile Simmons-2878 through the import of smithwiki.ged on Jul 1, 2013.

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John Simmons's Timeline

1670
February 22, 1670
Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
1702
1702
Saint Johns Parrish, Berkley County, South Carolina, Colonial America
1716
August 22, 1716
Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
1719
April 26, 1719
Duxbury, Plymouth County, MA, United States
1722
February 5, 1722
Duxbury, Plymouth County, MA, United States
1739
August 8, 1739
Age 69
Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, Colonial America
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