Zacheus Curtis

Pobable grandfather of Zacheus Curtis, III.

Zacheus Curtis

• BIRTH 1619 Durnford, Wiltshire Unitary Authority, Wiltshire, England *DEATH 17 Nov 1682 (aged 62–63) Essex, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
• BURIAL Unknown MEMORIAL ID 108238334 · View Source

Zacheus immigrated to Massachusetts. He arrived in Boston April 5, 1635 aboard the ship "James".

He and his wife Joanna had the following children:

• 1. Zacheus (FAG 108238137) born about 1646, married Mary Blake.
• 2. John born about 1649, married Mary Looke.
• 3. Zachariah born about 1651
• 4. Sarah born about 1654, married James Scales.
• 5. Mary born May 12, 1659 in Gloucester, married John Heard.
• 6. Ephraim married Elizabeth Kelbourne.
• 7. Abaigail who testified to her father's verbal will in 1682.

Family Members Parents Zacheus Curtis 1584–1683

Children Zacheus Curtis 1650–1712

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/108238334/zacheus-curtis

Research Notes

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Curtis-1406

Disproven Parents of Zacheus Curtis

Zacheus Curtis, {Fictional} b. 1587 Downton, Wiltshire, England Died 1678 in Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts & his wife Mary Delitha Curtis, {Fictional} Born about 1597 in Downton, Wiltshire, England Died about 1623 in Massachusetts were previously disconnected. (The names of this couple turn out to be for people from the 19th/20th Century, see Zaccheus Curtis (1864-1949) ) The correct parents were identified and published in the Summer 2023 NEHGR.[11]

11. Robert Battle, "The English Origin of Zacheus Curtis of Salem, Reading, Gloucester, and Rowley, Massachusetts" The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 177 (2023): 225-228.

GEDCOM Note

W.G. Davis 1927, The Ancestry of Lieut. Amos Towne 1737-1793 of
Arundel (Kennebunkport), Maine, pp. 53-55. Left Southampton, England, 5 April 1635 on the James. Residence was Downton, Wiltshire. In Salem in 1643 where he was charged with pasturing cattle in the north corn fields. By 1658 in Reading, renting land from John Gould. Next to Gloucester where an agreement for employment failed, resulting in a lawsuit. By 1660 in Rowley Village (later Boxford) where he obtained land from Zacheus Gould, father of John Gould.

Historical Collections of the Essex Institute, vol. 29, p. 1, 1892. Of Gloucester, he settled in Boxford about 1661. Half a dozen children by wife Joanna. Ephraim inherited the homestead upon his father's death.

Walt Burrell's Family Line, http://www.lgcy.com/users/b/burrell.htm, 22 December 1999. Died 17 November 1683. Twice married, to Grace Corwithen in 1635, then Joanna (Joan) in1645/1646.

James Savage 1981, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, Showing Three Generations of those who came before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. Zaccheus Curtis, Curtice, Curtise, or Curtize came in the James from Southampton in 1635 to Salem. From Downton, Wiltshire. Received land grant 1646, but moved to Gloucester where his wife was Joan.

Pope's Pioneers of Massachusetts, p. 126. Zaccheus Curtis, Curtice, Cuttris, Cortis, of Downton, England, arrived in the James 5 April 1635. Settled in Salem. Bought a house near Brooksby, Marblehead. Land grant 1646. Wife Mary at Topsfield where child Mary died 31 December 1674. Wife Mary died 21 October 1683. Zaccheus died 7 November 1683. [This confuses Zacheus Sr. with his son Zacheus Jr.]

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References

1. Robert Battle, "The English Origin of Zacheus Curtis of Salem, Reading, Gloucester, and Rowley, Massachusetts" The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 177 (2023): 225-228.