Ordway, Captain John

1658 - 1718  (59 years)

• Name	Ordway, John  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Title	Captain
  Birth	17 Nov 1658	Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA   [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  FSID	LCWL-234  [2]
  Death	2 Feb 1718	Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA   [1, 2]
  Burial	Aft 2 Feb 1718	Sawyer Hill Burying Ground, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I34672	The Thoma Family
  Last Modified	20 Sep 2023

  
  

  Family	Godfrey, Mary,   b. 23 Jan 1660, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 12 Aug 1725, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 65 years)
  Marriage	5 Dec 1681	Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA   [2, 5]
  Children	1. Ordway, Mary,   b. 18 Sep 1682, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 6 Apr 1755, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 72 years)  [natural]
  Family ID	F13709	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Sep 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 17 Nov 1658 - Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Marriage - 5 Dec 1681 - Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Death - 2 Feb 1718 - Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA Burial - Aft 2 Feb 1718 - Sawyer Hill Burying Ground, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  Captain John Ordway born in Newbury, Massachussets 17 Nov 1658, died there w Feb 1717/1718, in his sixtieth year. He married in Newbury, 5 Dec 1681, Mary Godfrey, born in Newbury, 23 Jan 1661, died there 12 Aug 1725, daughter of Peter and Mary (Browne) Godfrey. John Ordway was a weaver in Newbury. He was successively Sergeant, Lieutenant, and Captain of the military company there. In 1678, he, aged twenty years, took the oath of allegiance in Newbury with his father, aged sixty, and his brother James Jr., aged twenty six. He bought much land and was evidently a man of substance. He was the only son of James who left a daughter Anne of the proper age to be the wife of John Coffin, whom she married about six months after her father's death. When John Ordway was to be married to Mary Godfrey the fathers of the two young people each provided land for them. The custom was in those days to see that each young couple starting out in life had sufficient land to cultivate for a living and sufficient household plenishing to make a home. "Know ye that I James Ordway Malster in Newbury .... for ye Naturall Love & true afection that I doe beare unto my Son John Ordway of ye Alfores Towne ... doe give a .... parcell of land scituated in ... Newbury being ... Twenty acres ... This seventh day of December ... One thousand Six hundred Eighty & one ..." Witnesses: John Swett, Joseph Bayley. He appears also in the following land records: Edward Ordway, planter in Newbury, sells to John Ordway of same, common right there, Mary, wife of Edward, releases he dower, 6 Jan 1686-87; Witnesses: James Ordway, James Orday Jr. "I John Ordway ... of Newbury ... for ... that fatherly affection and love that I bear to my Son John Rogers & Esther my daughter his wife.

  
  

• Sources

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