Matthew Bridge

Matthew BRIDGE

• Sex: M
• Birth: 1615 in England
• Death: 28 APR 1700 in Cambridge,MA
• Father: Deacon John BRIDGE b: Abt 1578 in Braintree,England
• Mother: Unknown

Family

Marriage to Anna DANFORTH b: Abt 1620 in Framlingham,Suffolk,England Married: 19 JAN 1643

Children

• 1. John BRIDGE b: 15 JUN 1645 in Cambridge,MA
• 2. Has Children Anna BRIDGE b: 29 MAR 1646 in Cambridge,MA
• 3. Martha BRIDGE b: JAN 1649/1650 in Cambridge,MA
• 4. Matthew BRIDGE b: 5 MAY 1650 in Cambridge,MA
• 5. Samuel BRIDGE b: 17 FEB 1652/1653 in Cambridge,MA
• 6. Thomas BRIDGE b: 1 JUN 1656 in Cambridge,MA
• 7. Elizabeth BRIDGE b: 17 AUG 1659 in Cambridge,MA

Sources:

• Text: "Genealogy of the John Bridge Family in America", by William Dawson Bridge.
• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2208863&...

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Biography

Excerpt from “Genealogy of the John Bridge family in America, 1632-1924" link

MATTHEW BRIDGE born in England about 1615; died in Lexington, Apr. 28, 1700, aged 85 years; married Jan. 19, 1643, Anna, daughter of Nicholas and Elizabeth (Symmes) Danforth, born about 1620; was baptized Nov. 3, 1622; died Dec. 9, 1704, aged 84 years. Matthew Bridge seems to have done, in good part, the service for Lexington which his father rendered to Cambridge. Crowded as, almost from the first, the New Towne settlers felt themselves, with Charlestown, Boston and Watertown pressing so close upon three sides of them, the Cambridge Proprietors soon looked for new lands toward their northwest. As early as 1643, John Bridge cut grass on a lot he owned at Vine Brook, or "Cambridge Farms," as Lexington was then called. These lots were bounded by other earlier improved lands of his. This fact leads Mr. Hudson to suppose that even so early Matthew had gone to the Farms to live. But Mr. Paige's opinion seems more trustworthy — that he lived, probably until about 1668, at the corner of Main and Brattle Streets, in Cambridge, on land which he bought in 1657 and which he sold to Captain Pyam Blowers in 1672. At this last date, certainly, he had left, as it was at that time occupied by Reuben Luxford. At the time of his probable removal to Lexington, Matthew was one of the largest landholders of the precinct. As early as 1648, he owned at least four hundred acres there. In 1683, he sold his father's homestead to John Marrett and thus cut the last strong material tie that bound him to the old Cambridge home. For fifteen or twenty years before that time, he had energetically served the new settlement; and when the town was organized in 1692, he helped in its organization, as before, when the meeting-house was built, he contributed as largely as any to build that — more largely than any but three. When the first parish tax was laid, one finds the four leading taxpayers to have been Samuel Stone, William Munroe, Benjamin Muzzey and Matthew Bridge. It is noteworthy that the community at Cambridge was, from its general intelligence for which it was distinguished, or on some other account, but little troubled by presumed cases of witchcraft; and that, in perhaps the only important instance of supposed possession, the victims were declared innocent. Two certificates to the Christian character of Winnefret Holman, and to her 4 JOHN BRIDGE FAMILY IN AMERICA evident freedom from all signs of possession, are presented, which we may suppose released her from danger. These are now valuable witnesses of the good sense and intelligence of John Palfrey and of Matthew Bridge, who are prominent signers of the one, and of Anna (Danforth) Bridge, Elizabeth Bridge and John Bridge, who signed the other. In 1643, Matthew became a member of the "Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company," and in the same year he married Anna, daughter of Nicholas and Elizabeth (Symmes) Danforth. He was truly a most honorable successor to his father. It was his good fortune to marry into one of the finest families that Old England ever furnished New England. The Danforth family was truly of a remarkable stock, highly educated, well off in worldly goods, capable of progressive business activities, and religiously cultured far beyond the average of their English neighbors. Crossing the Atlantic, they settled first in Salem, Mass., but found, as they believed, that the place was inhospitable and they therefore removed to locations much nearer Boston, though Boston was by no means for many years a chosen location for them. Nicholas Danforth is described as a man who fled from England, in part at least, to escape from the burden of being knighted, which position King Charles demanded of all persons having a certain income. Though possessed of a fine property, he aban- doned it all for freedom of conscience and liberty to serve God as his judgment might dictate. We are by no means able to affirm that John Bridge, the Puritan, and Nicholas Danforth, the Puritan, were intimates in the mother- land, but they readily and speedily became such through their religious, personal and family association soon after reaching their New England home.

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