Robert Isbell

He may have married Ann Wells, who was a passenger on the Defiance. See below. He did not married Joanna Kingman, daughter of Henry Kingman, of Weymouth. She was married to Robert Holbrook.

He arrived before 1637 when he was in Salem, and there is a Robert _____ on the Defiance, 1635.

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Robert Isbell may have come on the Defence (Defiance). His son, Eleazar, married a French and there was a French family on the Defence. A coincidence?

ROBERT ISBELL (1603 -1655 ) had a son Isaac (16 -1677) whose record is given in Savage; his children in 1677 were given to the care of their grandmother, possibly meaning his mother, the wife of Robert Isbell, or it may have been the grandmother on the mother's side of the family. Nothing further concerning Robert is found in Savage. (See Isbell Family Genealogy, 1889, Oswego, N. Y., pp. 30, by L. W.. Kingman.)

It has been said that Robert Isbell married Anne Kingman, born England, 1626, daughter of Henry and Joanna ( ) Kingman. [THIS IS APPARENTLY INCORRECT Hatte Blejer]

1. ID: I306
2. Name: Robert ISBELL 1
3. Sex: M
4. Birth: 12 Feb 1602/1603 in E Newlyn, Cornwall, England 2
5. Death: 1655 in New London, New London Co, Connecticut 1
6. Occupation: Carpenter 1
7. Note: 1Robert came to New England 1635-36, perhaps in the ship "Defence" of London, Thomas Bostocke, sailing from London for New England July 4, 1635, as on the sailing list is "Robert --------", according to footnote, "surname and age illegible." Above the name, Robert, is "Ann Wells, age 23", perhaps she is the Ann who became his wife. He was first noticed at Salem, Essex Co, Massachusetts where he became a Proprietor. In 1636 his name appears on the list of Grants of Land known as Land GrantsA, also on the list made by Roger Conant of the Division of the marsh and meadow, ordered to be assigned and laid out to the families at a Town Meeting, December 25, 1637, known as Land Grants B. The figure 1 before his name indicates the numberof persons in his family, and the figure 2, after his name, that he received half an acre. Robert Isbell and wife, Ann, lived in that part of Salem which in 1645 became Manchester. In 1651, before leaving for New London, "Robert Isbell ofManchester, carpenter, for 15 pounds sold his dwellinghouse and 49 acres of land with his partition of meadow which is one half acre allotted to him in 1638 by Richard Norman." October 19, 1650, grants of land were made by the townsmen of NewLondon to "Mr. Richard Blynman, Obadiah Bruen, Hughe Calkin, Hughe Roberts, John Coite, Andrew Lester, James Averye and Robert Isbell." Mr. Blynman was a minister at Gloucester, Massachusetts engaged to become the minister at Pequot Plantationsas New London was then called. The others were a party of his friends from Gloucester and Salem who purposed to come with him and came on to make preparatory arrangements. Early in 1651, New Street, in rear of the town plot, was opened for the accommodation of the Cape Ann Company, as this little group was known. This was designated as "beyond the brook and the ministry lot." It was made into houselots and called Cape Ann Lane, nine lots on this street of six acres each. Beginning atthe lower end Hughe Calkins had the first lot by the Lyme Road, or highway to Nahantic, next him, his son-in-law, Hughe Roberts, then John Coite, Andrew Lester, James Averye, Robert Allyn, William Meads, William Hough and Robert Isbell. Later,lands Near New London, were laid out to Robert Isbell, Capt. John Avery and John Pickett, Near Jonathan Brewsters in Poquetannock, and those were called the "Poquetannock Grants." December 1659, his house on New Street was sold to William Hough,and in 1665 the farm in the northern part of the town in what is now (1943) Ledyard and on which he had lived, was bought by George Geer. The surname ISBELL was in use in England as early as 1583, and on early Connecticut records is found in thefollowing forms: Isbel, Isbell, Isbal, Isbil, Isbill and Isble; Isbel and Isbell being the most frequent.
8. Change Date: 4 AUG 2003

Father: John ISBELL b: 26 Feb 1572/1573 in E Newlyn, Cornwall, England Mother: Julia BENNY b: ABT 1574

Marriage 1 Ann ? WELLS b: ? 1612 Married: 1638

Children

1. Eleazer ISBELL b: ? 1640 in Salem, Essex Co, Massachusetts ?
2. Hannah ISBELL b: 1642 in ? Salem, Essex Co, Massachusetts

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Arrived in Salem, Mass. in 1637.