Jonathan Crisp1 
b. 29 January 1639/40, d. before 25 October 1680
Jonathan Crisp|b. 29 Jan 1639/40\nd. b 25 Oct 1680|p671.htm|Benjamin Crisp|b. c 1610\nd. bt 5 Nov 1683 - 21 Dec 1683|p664.htm|Bridget (—?—) (Crisp)|d. c 1675/76|p665.htm|||||||||||||
6th great-granduncle of Louise Underwood.
8th great-granduncle of Laura Jane Munson.
- Family Background:
- Underwood and Allied Families
Jonathan Crisp was born on 29 January 1639/40 in Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.2 He was the son of Benjamin Crisp and Bridget (—?—) (Crisp).1 He died before 25 October 1680 when his father administered his estate that consisted of three items—fifteen acres of land in Dunstable (£15), 28 acres in Groton (£20), and a horse (£2).3,4
Jonathan Crisp was living in Groton in 1664 when he owned a house-lot of 28 acres with an addition thereto, three acres in the general field, five acres in Flaggy meadow, three acres at Massabogue Brook and two acres in the Angle meadow, all compared and approved by the selectmen on 27 December 1664.5 In 1675 he was of Dunstable when he appeared in Suffolk court and acknowledge a judgement against himself and his estate to Mr. Benjamin Gibbs of Boston for £10: 10: 0 in money, execution being issued 12 July 1675.5 He was in King Philip's War and was paid £2: 10: 6 for his services on 24 April 1676.6,5
Jonathan Crisp was living in Groton in 1664 when he owned a house-lot of 28 acres with an addition thereto, three acres in the general field, five acres in Flaggy meadow, three acres at Massabogue Brook and two acres in the Angle meadow, all compared and approved by the selectmen on 27 December 1664.5 In 1675 he was of Dunstable when he appeared in Suffolk court and acknowledge a judgement against himself and his estate to Mr. Benjamin Gibbs of Boston for £10: 10: 0 in money, execution being issued 12 July 1675.5 He was in King Philip's War and was paid £2: 10: 6 for his services on 24 April 1676.6,5
Citations
- [S170] Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-16?? (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-200?). The Great Migration Study Project is ongoing. Several volumes have been published in hardcopy, and new sketches appear frequently in the "Great Migration Newsletter" (online subscription or hardcopy). The database is online and may be viewed at New England Ancestors.org or Ancestry.com, both of which are subscription sites. It is also available in hardcover and CD-ROM from NEHGS.
- [S169] Watertown Historical Society, Watertown Records Comprising the First and Second Books of Town Proceedings with the Lands Grants and Possessions also the Proprietors' Book and the First Book and Supplement of Births Deaths and Marriages (Watertown: Press of Fred G. Barker, 1894), First Book and Supplement, 6.
- [S170] Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins, citing Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Probate Records, 5: 109.
- [S171] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Crisp, of Watertown," Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966): A Reprinting in Alphabetical Order by Surname, of the Sixteen Multi-Ancestor Compendia, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996), Vol. 1, 320, 321, citing Middlesex Probate, No. 5321, originally published in The Ancestry of Sarah Hildreth (1958).
- [S171] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Crisp, of Watertown," Massachusetts and Maine Families, Vol. 1, 320, originally published in The Ancestry of Sarah Hildreth (1958).
- [S170] Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins, citing George Madison Bodge, Soldiers in King Philip=squots War being A Critical Account of That War with A Concise History of the Indian Wars of New England From 1620-1677 (Leominster, Massachusetts, 1896=semi rpt. Baltimore 1967), 122, 272, 359, 360.
