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- 1623 - Moses and Philip de La Noyes (Delano) received an acre of land 'beyond the first brooke, to the woods westward'.
https://archive.org/details/spraguesjournalo06spra/page/137/mode/1up
https://www.geni.com/people/Moses-Simmons-of-Duxbury/6000000000792368240
From https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Simonson-144
Moses Simmons formerly Simonson aka Symonson
Born about 1604 in Leiden, Netherlands
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of Sarah (Unknown) Simmons — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
DESCENDANTS
Father of John Simmons, Rebecca (Simmons) Soule, Mary (Simmons) Alden, Moses Simmons III, Sarah (Simmons) Nash, Elizabeth (Simmons) Dwelley and Aaron Simmons
Died about 1691 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay
NOTE: The maiden name of Moses Simmons' wife is not known. Some sources identify her as Sarah Chandler, the daughter of Roger Chandler, as his wife, but Sarah Chandler married Solomon Leonard. Edmund Chandler also had a daughter Sarah Chandler. There is no contemporary record that confirms a marriage between them. PLEASE DO NOT REATTACH SARAH CHANDLER AS WIFE. Thank you.
Biography
Last Name at birth is apparently Simonson.[1]
Moses Simmons' surname "Simmons" has been spelled different ways in the old records: Symonds, Symons, Simonson, Simmonson. Many of his later descendants have used the spelling Simmons.
He was probably born about 1604.
A previous version of this profile claimed, citing only online trees, that his parents were Moses Simmons and Lydia Holland. Anderson's Great Migration profile names no parents.
Jeremy Bangs analyzed the extant Leiden records after Anderson and found no obvious identification of the immigrant's parents. He does, however, make the case that the patronymic naming conventions of the time and place would indicate that Moses' father's first name would have been Simon.[2]
That he was of Dutch, not English, origins was called out by Bradford who in describing the Dutch who spoke English referred to Moses Symonson as the son of one who communed with the Dutch church in Leiden, and it wa because of this association that Moses was welcomed into the church in Plymouth, New England.[3]
He was a "Separatist" by religion who lived in Leiden, Holland before migrating to Plymouth Colony on the Fortune (the second Pilgrim ship) in 1621. He is considered to be part of the Pilgrim Company. He was single at the distribution of cattle in 1627. He became a freeman about 1634.
He married at least once, and probably twice.[citation needed] He was the father of seven children: Rebecca, Moses, Mary, John, Sarah, Elizabeth, and Aaron. In 1660, his wife signed a deed with him. Her first name was Sarah. She seems to have been the mother of his children. She seems to have pre-deceased him.
The maiden name of Moses Simmons' wife is not known. Some sources identify her as Sarah Chandler, the daughter of Roger Chandler, as his wife, but Sarah Chandler married Solomon Leonard. Edmund Chandler also had a daughter Sarah Chandler. There is no contemporary record that confirms a marriage between them. The two families probably knew each other, as they lived in the same towns and at one time their families owned adjoining land. Benjamin Chandler, Edmund's son, was witness to Moses Simmon's will dated June 17, 1689.
Moses Simmons died before September 10, 1691, the date of the Inventory for probate.[4]
Several of the Simmons children married children of John Alden, another neighbor.
Estate
"THE LAST WILL AND TESTEMENT OF MOSES SIMMONS"[citation needed]
I, being aged and full of decaye but in my right and perfect understanding and not knowing the day of my death, do will that my estate shall thus be disposed of after my decease;
In the name of God Amen
Item 1- I do will and bequeath my body to the grave and that it he decently burried and funeral charges defrayed out of my estate before any legacie. And my Soul to God that gave it me whome I trust hath redeemed it.
Item 2- I do will that all my personall debts be paid out of my personall estate.
Item 3- I will and bequeath to my daughter Mary, the wife of Joseph Alden, Four pounds.
Item 4- I will and bequeath to my Son Aaron. Four pounds.
Item 5- I do will and bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth, now the wife of Richard Dwelley, Five shillings.
Item 6- I do will and bequeath to my daughter Sarah, now the wife of James Nash. Two pounds, Ten shillings, of which the said James Nash hath Two pounds, Five shillings in his hands already.
Item 7- I do will and bequeath to my Son John, Four pounds.
Item 8- I do will, constitute, ordaine and appoint my Son John to be executor of this my last will and testament.
So desiring that all my children may be at peace after my decease I do to these presents set my hand and seal this seventeenth day of June in the year of our Lord God, One Thousand Six Hundred Eighty and Nine.
In presence of
Benjamin Chandler?David Alden?Thomas Delano
The mark M of Moses Simons
David Alden and Thomas Delano, two of the witnesses here named made oath before the county Court at Plymouth Sept. 15th. 1691 that they were present and saw the above named Moses Simons signe, seal and heard him declare the above written to be his last will, and, that to the best of their judgment, he was of disposing mind and memory when he so did.
Attest Sam Sprague cler.
Inventory of the estate of MOSES SIMMONS late of Duxbury taken Sept. 10th, 1691, by Thomas Delano and Edward Southward,
Amount £53, 11 Shillings, presented at Court by John Simmons, Son of deceased, Sept. 15th, 1691. [5]
Corrections to Original Profiles
Removed Sarah Chandler as wife. She was the daughter of Roger and Isabella (Chilton) Chandler. She married Solomon Leonard, as proved by Roger Chandler's will.
Removed Sarah Chandler as wife. She was the daughter of Edmund Chandler.
Removed Thomas Symonson Simons as child.
Removed "William" as middle name. Becky Syphers 6/9/14.
Sources
Footnotes and citations:
↑ Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, vol. 3: P - W, (Boston: NEHGS, 1995): 1681-1683, biography of Moses Simonson. link for subscribers
↑ Jeremy Bangs, "Moses Simon of Leiden," in New England Ancestors, Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2000-2009. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009.) Vol. 5.3, p 54. link for subscribers
↑ Mayflower Descendant: A Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy and History. Boston, MA: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1899- . (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010), vol 27, p 63; link for subscribers
↑ The History of the Simmons Family by Lorenzo Albert Simmons, pub 1930 gives his death as just before September 15, 1691.
↑ Will added by Brian McCullough.
Source list:
Rowe, Henry S., Compiler, The Ancestry of John Simmons, Founder of Simmons College, Privately Printed, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1933
Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Boston, New England Historic Genelogical Society 1995, Vol. III, pp 1681-1683 and Vol I, pp. 326-332.
Simmons, Lorenzo Albert. History of the Simmons Family from Moses Simmons 1st. (Moyses Symonson) Ship Fortune, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1930.
Our Alden ancestry' by Dorothy Huggins Harding, Unknown: unknown, 1965
The ancestors and descendants of Zephaniah and Silence Alden Hathaway: with notes on allied families by Margaret Oliver Collacott, Mentor, Ohio: unknown, 1961
Godfrey Memorial Library, compiler, American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI) Middletown, CT, USA. Online Publication: Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 1999.
Caleb Johnson's Mayflower History at http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/index.php (URL???)
Ancestral File (R) Title: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R) (Copyright (c) 1987, data as of 5 January 1998). Family History Library Address: 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA. File Numbers MH:IF5317, MH:I239.
Family Data Collection - Individual Records Author: Edmund West, comp. Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.
Ancestry Family Trees, Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.
Winslow, Edward: Hypocrisie Unmasked, 1916 edition, page 95.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_%28Plymouth_Colony_ship%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passengers_of_1621_Fortune_voyage
See also:
Bradford's History "Of Plymouth Plantation", Wright & Porter Printing Company,Boston, 1898.
Willison, George F., Saints and Strangers, The Cornwall Press, Cornwall, NY, 1943, Third Printing
Lora Altine Woodbury Underhill, Descendants of Edward Small of New England,Riverside Press,Rev. edition, Houghton Mifflin,Co.,New York,1934.
Hotten, John Camden, The Original Lists Of Persons Of Quality (John Camden Hotten, 1874) Page xxviii
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