Michael Metcalf

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Michael Metcalf (1645 - 1693)

Michael Metcalf
Born 21 Jan 1645 in Dedham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colonymap
ANCESTORS ancestors
Son of Michael Metcalf and Mary (Fairbanks) Smith
Brother of Mary (Metcalf) Ware, Sarah (Metcalf) Ware, Jonathan Metcalf, Eleazer Metcalf and John Smith [half]
Husband of Elizabeth (Fuller) Metcalf — married 19 Sep 1672 in Dedham, Suffolk County, Mass. Bay Colonymap
DESCENDANTS descendants
Father of Michael Metcalf, Mary (Metcalf) Woodcock, Thomas Metcalf, Sarah (Metcalf) Gay, Eleazer Metcalf and Hannah (Metcalf) Kingsbury
Died 1 Sep 1693 at age 48 in Dedham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colonymap
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Biography

Michael Metcalf III was born in Dedham, (then) Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony on 21 January and baptized on 26 January 1644/5, the eldest son of Michael Jr. and Mary (Fairbanks) Metcalf.[1][2]

He was only 9 when his father died. He and his siblings were raised in Dedham by their mother and step-father.Christopher Smith

He married in Dedham on 19 September 1672,Elizabeth (Fuller) Kingsbury widow of John Kingsbury, [3] with a young daughter Elizabeth Kingsbury, born 23 Nov 1668.

They may have settled first in the Metcalf home on East Street; however, from the tax lists it appears that they soon settled on Dedham Island, possibly in the Kingsbury home. In 1676 Michael requested from the town a small parcel of land near the clay pits by the "house sometimes John Kingsburys."[4]

He served various years as a fence viewer for the planting field and the School Ground,[5] but, like his father, was destined for a relatively short life.

Michael Metcalf died in Dedham on September 1, 1693,[6] [age 48]. He was buried 15 September 1693 in Suffolk County.[citation needed]

On 29 Mar 1694, Elizabeth, widow of Michael Metcalf, was assigned administration on her husband's estate, with Daniel Fisher yeoman, and Thomas Fuller weaver, as sureties. The same day an inventory of the estate was presented by his widow Elizabeth, dated 17 November 1693. Household goods totaled £63, land, buildings and stock totalled £185.[7]

Michael Metcalf, son of Michael and Elizabeth, in an administration bond for the division of his father's estate, dated 11 April 1701, named his siblings as Thomas Metcalf, Mary Woodcock, Sarah, Eleazer, Hannah and Daniel Metcalf.[7]

Elizabeth died on October 24, 1732,[8] almost forty years after Michael, at the advanced age of 84.

Bachelor son Michael Jr. died three years later, in 1736, at age 61. He left the remainder of the estate to his brother Thomas [age 57] of Needham, having already deeded numerous tracts to Thomas' son Michael, including the land on both sides of East Street. He left £60 to his sister Mary Woodcock [age 59] and her husband Jeremiah Woodcock, if they acquitted all claim to her father's estate; about 10 shillings each to [half] sister Elizabeth Daman [age 67] of Dorchester, brother Eleazar [age 51] of Wrentham, and sister Hannah Stedman [age 48] of Brookline; a small amount to his deceased sister Sarah Gay's children; and an impressive £100 to the North Precinct School.[9]

Michael and Elizabeth had, in Dedham: [10]

Michael, b. May 9, 1674
Mary, b, October 3, 1676, m. Jeremiah Woodcock.
Thomas, b. January 3, 1678-9
Sarah, b. April 26, 1682, m. John Gay.
Eleazer, b. 1684
Hannah, b. 17 April 1687, m.1 Thomas Stedman Jr., m.2 Dea. Timothy Kingsbury.
Daniel, b. 25 June 1690

Research Note

The Sarah Metcalf who married in Dedham 6 Apr 1709 Joseph Wight and died in Dedham 28 June 1748 was not Michael's daughter. Michael Jr. in 1736 left funds to his deceased sister Sarah Gay.

Sources

↑ Don Gleason Hill, compiler, The Record of Baptisms, Marriages & Deaths ... Town of Dedham, MA, 1635-1845 2 vols. (Dedham, MA: Town of Dedham, 1886), p. 3:"Michaell, the Son of Michaell & Mary Medcalfe was borne the 21 of the 11 mo. [1643/4]"
↑ Don Gleason Hill, compiler, The Record of Baptisms, Marriages & Deaths ...transcribed from the Church Records in the Town of Dedham, MA, 1638-1845 (Dedham, MA: Town of Dedham, 1888), p. 28: "Michaell ye sonne of our brother Michaell Mettchalfe ye yonger & his wife Mary was baptised 26d 11m 1644."
↑ Hill, Don Gleason. et al, The Record of births, marriages and deaths, and Intentions of marriage, in the town of Dedham . . . 1635-1845, p. 12
↑ Early Records of the Town of Dedham, Edited by Don Gleason Hill, Vol..5, p. 47. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101007882101&view=1up&...
↑ Early Records of the Town of Dedham, Edited by Don Gleason Hill, Vol..5, p.67. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101007882101&view=1up&...
↑ Hill, Don Gleason. et al, The Record of births, marriages and deaths, and Intentions of marriage, in the town of Dedham . . . 1635-1845, p. 25
↑ 7.0 7.1 Suffolk County Probate Records, file #2130, estate of Michael Metcalf of Dedham.
↑ The record of births, marriages and deaths, and intentions of marriage, in the town of Dedham, ed. by Don G. Hill (1886), Vol.1, p.59. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101013827207&view=1up&...
↑ Suffolk Co. Probate Bk.32, p.461; Deed Bk. 53, p.140.
↑ Hill, Don Gleason. et al, The Record of births, marriages and deaths, and Intentions of marriage, in the town of Dedham . . . 1635-1845, pp. 13, 14, 18, 19, 22
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:S5ST-Q8X : accessed 2017-07-19), entry for Michael /METCALF/.

• FULLER, Elizabeth
• b. 1 APR 1648
• d. 24 OCT 1732
• Family:
• Spouse: KINGSBURY, John
• Children:
  • KINGSBURY, Elizabeth
• Family:
• Marriage: 16 SEP 1672
• Spouse: METCALF, Michael
• b. 21 NOV 1644
• Parents:
• Father: METCALF, Michael
• Mother: FAIRBANKS, Mary
• Children:
  • METCALF, Mary
  • METCALF, Eleazer
• From: http://www.genealogyofnewengland.com/f_69.htm#49 __________
• Michael Metcalf, Jr
• Birth: Aug. 29, 1620 Norwich, Norfolk, England
• Death: Mar. 25, 1654 Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
• Michael Metcalf, Jr., purportedly b. Aug. 29, 1620 at St. Benedict parish at Norwich, England. His baptism is unknown as the year 1620 is missing in the St. Benedict parish register. He d. Mar. 25, 1654 at Dedham, Mass.
• On Apr. 2, 1644 at Dedham, Mass., Michael m. Mary Fairbanks, dau. of Jonathan Fairbanks, Sr. and Grace Smith, b. or bapt. Apr. 12, 1622 near Halifax in Yorkshire, England. They had the following five children, all b. of record at Dedham, Mass.:
  • • i. Michael Metcalf, the 3rd, b. Jan. 21, 1644/5, d. Sept. 11, 1693 at Dedham; m. Sept. 19, 1672 at Dedham, Elizabeth Fuller, dau. of Lieut. Thomas Fuller and Hannah Flower and widow of John Kingsley of Dedham. She was b. Apr. 1, 1648 at Dedham where she d. Oct. 24, 1732. Seven children of the family. Elizabeth had m. 1) Nov. 29, 1666 at Dedham, John Kingsley, s. of Joseph Kingsley and his wife Millicent. He was b. Aug. 15, 1643 at Dedham where he d. May 30, 1669. There was one child of Elizabeth's first marriage, dau. Elizabeth b. Nov 23, 1668, who was subsequently raised in the Metcalf household.
  • • ii. Mary Metcalf, b. Aug. 15, 1646, d. Mar. 22, 1676/7 at Dedham; m. Dec. 10, 1668 at Dedham as the first of his three wives, Capt. John Ware, eldest child of the immigrants Robert Ware and Margaret Hunting, b. Oct. 11, 1646 at Dedham. He d. Apr. 7, 1718 at Wrentham, Mass. Mary (Metcalf) Ware was the mother of five children, but only two survived past infancy; i. John Ware, Jr., b. June 17, 1670 and v. Eleazer Ware, b. Oct. 2, 1676.
  • • iii. Sarah Metcalf, b. Dec. 7, 1648, d. Apr. 13, 1717 at Wrentham, Mass.; m. June 4, 1677 at Dedham as his first wife, Robert Ware, Jr., s. of the Dedham immigrants Robert Ware and Margaret Hunting, b. Aug. 1, 1653 at Dedham. Eight children of the family. Robert Ware d. Sept. 16, 1724 at Wrentham. He m. 2) Feb. 26, 1719/20 at Wrentham, Elizabeth Holbrook.
  • • iv. Dea. Jonathan Metcalf, b. Sept. 21, 1650, d. May 23, 1727 at Dedham; m. Apr. 10, 1674 at Dedham, Hannah Kendric, dau. of John Kendric and Anna Satwell, b. Mar. 20, 1651/2 at Boston, Mass. She d. Dec. 23, 1731 at Dedham. Ten children of the family
  • • v. Dea. Eleazer Metcalf, b. Mar. 2, 1652/3, d. Sept. 13, 1704 at Wrentham, Mass.; m. Apr. 9, 1684 at Wrentham, Meletiah Fisher, dau. of Samuel Fisher and Meletiah Snow, b. May 1, 1667 at Dedham. She d. Sept. 23, 1719 at Wrentham. They had at least eight children.
• The wid. Mary (Fairbanks) Metcalf m. 2) Aug. 2, 1654 at Dedham as his 2nd wife, Christopher Smith, who d. Nov. 7, 1676 at Dedham. Mary (Fairbanks)(Metcalf) Smith d. June 4, 1684 at Dedham. She had one child by her second husband, son John Smith, b. Nov. 19, 1655 at Dedham.
• Family links:
• Parents:
• Michael Metcalf (1591 - 1664)
• Sarah Ellwyn Metcalf (1593 - 1644)
• Spouse:
• Mary Fairbanks Smith (1622 - 1684)*
• Children:
  • Mary Metcalf Ware (1646 - 1677)*
  • Sarah Metcalf Ware (1648 - 1717)*
  • Jonathan Metcalf (1650 - 1727)*
  • Eleazer Metcalf (1653 - 1704)*
• Siblings:
• Mary Metcalf Wilson (1619 - 1676)*
• Michael Metcalf (1620 - 1654)
• John Metcalf (1622 - 1690)*
• Sarah Metcalf Onion (1624 - 1672)*
• Elizabeth Metcalf Bancroft (1626 - 1711)*
• Martha Metcalf Stow (1628 - 1717)*
• Thomas Metcalf (1629 - 1702)*
• Inscription:
• No gravestone is known to exist, or if it once existed has crumbled away with the passage of time. See note at the main page of the Old Village Cemetery of Dedham.
• Burial: Old Village Cemetery, Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
• Find A Grave Memorial# 64231690
• From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=64231690 _______________
• A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of ... Vol. III. by James Savage, ....
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• METCALF, frequently MEDCALF in early rec. ELEAZER, Wrentham, s. of the sec. Michael, m. 9 Apr. 1684, Meletiah Fisher, had Eleazer, b. 30 May 1685, d. young; Michael, 21 May 1687 ; Samuel, 15 Jan. 1689; Ebenezer, 8 Jan. 1691; Jonathan, 9 Apr. 1693; Meletiah, 21 Apr. 1695; Timothy, 2 July 1697; Martha and Mary, tw. 27 Aug. 1699; and Eleazer, again, 21 Nov. 1701; was deac. and d. 14 May 1704. JOHN, Medfield, s. of the first Michael, b. in Eng. m. 22 Mar. 1647, Mary, d. of Francis Chickering, had John, b. 21, bapt. 26 Mar. 1648; Michael, 20, bapt. 25 Aug. 1650; Mary, 9, bapt. 24 Oct 1652; these all at Dedham ; but at M. we kn. not that we name all, when enumer. Joseph, 22 Nov. 1658 ; and Hannah, 13 Oct 1664. He was freem. 1647, and d. 27 Nov. 1675, unless this date belong to his eldest s. JOHN, New Haven 1645, a brickmaker, may have been s. or br. of Stephen, as a. the yr. 1647, he rem. JONATHAN, Dedham, s. of the sec. Michael, m. 10 Apr. 1674, Hannah, d. of John Kenrick, had Jonathan, b. 16 Mar. 1675; John, 20 Mar. 1678; Ebenezer, 14 Feb. 1680; Joseph, 2 or 11 Apr. 1682, H. C. 1703, min. of Falmouth; Timothy, 18 Nov. 1684, d. at 11 yrs.; Eleazer, 14 Feb. 1687; Hannah, 10 Apr. 1689; Nathaniel, Apr. 1691 ; Mehitable; and Mary; was freem. 1683 or 4, his name being ins. ea. yr. and he d. 27 May 1727, and his wid. d. 23 Dec 1731. * JOSEPH, Ipswich, freem. 4 Mar. 1635, rep. in Sept of that yr. and oft. aft. d. 21 July 1665, aged 60. By his will, we learn
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• that his w. was Eliz. his s. Thomas, b. in Eng. prob. and gr.ch. Joseph, Mary, and Eliz. but perhaps this had d. soon. His wid. m. 8 Nov. 1670, Edward Beacham. JOSEPH, Ipswich, s. of Thomas, prob. by w. Rebecca, had Jacob, b. 8 June 1685, prob. d. soon ; and Abigail, 29 Mar. 1686. MICHAEL, Dedham, b. 1586, at Tatterford, in Co. Norfolk, was a dornock weaver at Norwich, and free of the city, where all his ch. were b. m. 13 Oct. 1616, Sarah, had Michael, b. 13 Nov. 1617, d. soon; Mary, 14 Oct. 1618, but the geneal. of the fam. in Reg. VI. 173, says 14 Feb. 1619 ; Michael, again, 29 Aug. 1620 ; John, 5 or 15 Sept. 1622, bef. ment ; Sarah, 10 Sept. 1624; Eliz. 4 Oct 1626; Martha, 27 Mar. or Oct. 1628; Thomas, 27 Dec 1629 or 30; Ann, 1 Mar. 1631 or 34, d. soon; Jane, 24 Mar. 1632; and Rebecca, 5 Apr. 1635; his w. was b. at a village near Norwich, he says, 17 June 1593, but possib. the figures have been mistaken, as in the examin. one week bef. the sail, of the ship, call. I think, the Rose, of Yarmouth, from Yarmouth, Apr. 1637, he calls hims. 45 yrs. of age, and w. 39. "From the relig. tyranny" exercised by Wren, then Bp. of .Norwich, he felt forced to esc. even at the expense of separ. from his fam. for a time, and emb. at London, 17 Sept. 1636, for N. E. but was sadly tormented by equal tempests on the water, and the ship at Christmas put back to Plymouth ; and so far was this a happiness that in Apr. foll, he had license for the whole fam. to come ; only 8 ch. are ment. in the custom-ho. docum. but I can hardly doubt that the name of John was casually overlook. At Boston he arr. "three days bef. mid. sum. with w. nine ch. and a serv." wh. was Thomas Comberbach, aged 16, 1 presume in one of the three ships ment. by Winth. as coming in, from Ipswich, 20 June. He may have been br. of Joseph ; was freem. 13 May 1640, or 18 May 1642, and, perhaps, swore on both days, tho. more prob. it is a fault of the Secr, as in the list appears. His w. d. 21 Feb. 1645, and he m. 13 Aug. foll. Martha, wid. of Thomas Pigg, or Pidge ; and he d. 27 Dec. 1664. A very, curious docum. his engagem. aft. 70 yrs. of age to keep the town sch. in 1656, is giv. in Geneal. Reg. X. 282. His will, made six wks. bef. gives to eight ch. Michael being d. and ea. of the ds. m. Martha hav. then a sec. or third h. to gr.ch. Michael, s. of Michael, and gr.ch. William Brignall, s. of d. Martha, wh. was a mem. of Roxbury ch. by her first h. and to Martha Bullard, d. of his w. Mary m. 24 Nov. 1642, Henry Wilson ; Sarah m. Robert Onion, as his sec. w. the first hav. d. in Apr. 1643; Eliz. m. 15 Sept. 1648, Thomas Bancroft of Reading; Martha m. William Brignall, next, 2 Aug. 1654, Christopher Smith as the Geneal. Reg. VI. 173, says, tho. I doubt its correctness, for Christopher Smith in 668, is nam. in his will by Jonathan Fairbanks as h. of his d. Mary, and third h . . . . . Stow; Jane m. 1654, Samuel Walker,
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• (tho. strong doubts of error in the name are felt) of Rehoboth ; and Rebecca m. 5 Apr. 1659, John Mackintosh. MICHAEL, Dedham, eldest s. of the preced. b. in Eng. m. 2 or 12 Apr. 1644, Mary, d. of John Fairbanks, says the Metcalf geneal. bef. rnent but perhaps by mistake, had Michael, b. 21 Jan. 1645; Mary, 15 Aug. 1646; Sarah, 7 Dec 1648 ; Jonathan, 21 Sept 1650; and Eleazer, 20 Mar. 1653, bef. ment. was freem. 1645, and d. (ten yrs. bef. his f.) 24 Dec. 1654. Mary m. 10 Dec. 1668, John Ware; and Sarah m. 4 June 1677, Robert Ware. MICHAEL, Dedham, s. of the preced. m. 17 Sept. 1672, Eliz. not, I think, as Goodwin has it, d. but wid. of the sec. John Kingsbury, d. of Thomas Fuller, both of the same, had Michael, b. 9 May 1674; Mary, 3 Oct 1676; Thomas, 3 Jan. 1679; Sarah, 26 Apr. 1682 ; Eleazer, 12 Feb. 1685; Hannah, 17 Apr. 1687 ; Daniel, 25 June 1691 ; and Eliz. ; was freem. 1690, and d. 2 Sept. 1693. His wid. d. 24 Oct 1732. STEPHEN, New Haven 1639, a brickmaker, aft. 1647 prob. rem. was in good repute. * THOMAS, Dedham, youngest s. of the first Michael, b. in Eng. m. 12 Sept 1656, Sarah Paige, had Sarah, b. 3 Mar. 1658 ; Mary, bapt. 25 Nov. 1660 ; Samuel, b. 17 Oct 1661, d. soon ; Thomas ; 22 Sept 1665, d. soon; Samuel, again, 17 Sept 1668; Thomas, again, 7 or 21 May 1671 ; John, 20 Sept 1675 ; and Judith, 25 Nov. 1677, d. at 5 yrs. The w. d. and he m. 2 Dec. 1679, Ann Paine of Rehoboth, was freem. 1653, deac. and rep. 1691, d. 16 Nov. 1702. Sarah m.23 Nov. 1676, Samuel Whiting, and d. 1702. THOMAS, Ipswich 1648, s. of Joseph the first, b. in Eng. I suppose, had Mary, b. 23 June 1658 ; Joseph, 27 Jan. 1661 ; Thomas, 4 Dec. 1667; beside prob. Eliz. nam. in the will of gr.f. He was freem. 1674. Of the mo. of these ch. we kn. nothing; but she may have d. and one Thomas of Ipswich, a widower, m. 1685, wid. Lydia Davis. Still more uncertainty is felt unless we give him ano. w. for the wid. of Thomas M. nam. Abigail, d. at I. 5 May 1727, aged 88 yrs. An earlier Thomas of Ipswich is found by Mr. Felt to be inhab. there 1638. THOMAS, Dedham, s. of the first Thomas, m. 24 Nov. 1696, Sarah, d. of William Avery, the sec of the name, had Sarah, b. 26 Apr. 1698, d. in few wks. ; Samuel, 9 Apr. 1699, d. at 14 yrs. ; Thomas, 30 Dec 1701 ; and Sarah, 1 Dec 1703; and he d. 12 Dec. 1704; and his wid. m. 6 Apr. 1709, Joseph Wight, and d. 1748. Two of this name had, in 1829, been gr. at Harv. and seven at the other N. E. coll. It is oft. in old rec writ as no doubt it was sound. Medcalf. ___________________
• Lieut Thomas Metcalf
• Birth: Jan. 3, 1679 Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
• Death: Aug. 4, 1743 Needham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
• S/o Michael Metcalf and Elizabeth Fuller.
• H/o Lydia Chickering.
• Robert Brand Hanson, Editor, Vital Records of Dedham, Massachusetts; 1635-1845 (Picton Press, Camden, Maine (first printing August 1997)), 149, births. Metcalf, Thomas, s/o Michael & Elizabeth, b. 1/3/1678/9.
• Robert Brand Hanson, Editor, Vital Records of Needham, Massachusetts, 1711-1845 (Picton Press, Camden, Maine (first printing July 1997)), 187, deaths. Metcalf, Lt. Thomas, d. 8/4/1743; (GS: age 65).
• Family links:
• Spouse:
• Lydia Chickering Metcalf (1678 - 1770)
• Children:
  • Thomas Metcalf (1713 - 1760)*
  • Esther Metcalf Harris (1718 - 1801)*
• Inscription:
• From Needham Epitaphs by Charles Curtis Greenwood: "Here Lies the Body of Lieut Thomas Metcalf who Departed This Life August ye 4th 1743 In ye 65th Year of his Age
• Gravestone missing as of 1975
• Burial: Needham Cemetery, Needham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
• Find A Grave Memorial# 138151667
• From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=138151667 ____________

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