William Pond, of Dorchester

Family

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3. Mary Dyer (George1) was born about 1636 in England and died on 16 Feb 1710/11 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Ma about age 75.

Mary Dyer married William Pond 18 about 1657, son of Robert Pond and Mary (nee?) Pond. William was born in 1628 in GROTON, SUFFOLK, ENG. and died on 4 Apr 1690 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Ma at age 62.

Children from this marriage were:

• + 13 M i. William Pond was born in Dorchester, Suffolk, Ma and died on an unknown date.
• + 14 M ii. Samuel Pond was born in Dorchester, Suffolk, Ma and died on 2 Oct 1657.
• + 15 F iii. Abigail Pond 19 died on 12 Oct 1682 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Ma.
• + 16 F iv. Elizabeth (twin) Pond was born on 17 Feb 1657/58 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Ma and died on an unknown date.
• + 17 F v. Martha (twin) Pond was born on 17 Feb 1657/58 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Ma and died on an unknown date.
• + 18 F vi. Judith Pond was born on 16 Oct 1659 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Ma and died on an unknown date.
• + 19 F vii. Thankful Pond was born on 15 Jan 1660/61 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Ma and died on 23 Dec 1711 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Ma at age 50.
• + 20 F viii. Experience Pond was born in 1663 and died on an unknown date.
• + 21 M ix. George Pond was born on 20 Jan 1665/66 and died on an unknown date.
• + 22 F x. Mindwell Pond was born on 24 Aug 1667 and died on an unknown date.

Mary next married James White after 1690, son of Edward White and Unknown. James died on an unknown date.

Notes

“A Genealogical Record of Daniel Pond, and His Descendants.” By Edward Doubleday Harris. Page 6. GoogleBooks

JOHN POND, and a brother whose name is not given, sons of one of Governor Winthrop's old neighbors, came to New England in the year 1630, with the Governor. After his arrival here, Governor Winthrop wrote home to bis eldest son in Groton, desiring him to tell “old Pond that both his sons are well and remember their duty." Records of Groton, examined at the instance of the writer, give no satisfaction to the patient searcher; the name of Pond does not occur in them. John and his brother were, doubtless, men of humble birth and small means, launched forth from the paternal roof by the old sire, to seek their fortunes in the new world. Of the former we hear nothing more. He may have returned to England, or pushed on to a more congenial climate. But one ROBERT, who it is surmised was the brother, sat down at Dorchester. He died in 1637, his inventory being dated December 27 of that year. His widow, Mary, married Edward Shepard of Cambridge. It is known that Robert and Mary Pond had a daughter Mary, who was eleven years old at the time that her mother joined the church at Cambridge, and who afterwards married John Blackman. There is evidence, too, that the widow carried with her to Cambridge two other children, Jonathan and Sarah, though it seems difficult to reconcile dates and facts with this hypothesis, unless the transcript of the court paper relating to Jonathan's estate, on page 338 of the N. E. Genealogical Register for 1853, errs in the age of Sarah.

There is but little doubt that Robert Pond of Milton, was also a son of Robert and Mary of Dorchester: He was made freeman in 1642, married Mary Ball, and died between 1660 and 1663. Their children were Mary, Martha, and probably the Sarah who married Desire Clap.

WILLIAM Pond of Dorchester, also supposed to have been a son of, the first Robert, married Mary, daughter of George Dyer, and had several children born in Dorchester, none of whom, except a daughter Thankful, who married Philip Whithington, can be traced. The name in Dorchester, and of this line, seems to have died out with that generation.

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