EAMES

1. JOHN-

b.c.1530
m. JOAN ______ (bur. 7 June 1587/8 Fordington St. Georges, Dorchester, Dorset)
d. 1607 Fordington

Jone Emes widow an olde woman was buried the vijth daye of June Ano-

Issue-

2I. THOMAS- m. before 1575 MILLICENT BREWSTER (bur. 23 May 1614 Fordington), bur. 25
June 1618 Fordington

Ref:

Parish Register for St. Georges, Fordington

2I. THOMAS (JOHN 1)

m. before 1575 MILLICENT BREWSTER (bur. 23 May 1614 Fordington St. Georges, Dorchester,
Dorset)
bur. 25 June 1618 Fordington

St. Georges Church, Fordington

Issue-

 I. Alice- bpt. Sept. or Oct. 1578 St. Georges, probably d.s.p. between 1579 and 1584
 II. John- bpt. 12 Jan. 1586/7 St. Georges, Fordington, m. Lucy ______ (bur. 11 May 1665 Fordington),
Adm. Oct. 1662, inv. 17 Nov. 1662 Fordington
 III. Richard- b.c.1590, m. 5 June 1615 St. Georges, Fordington, Alice Sprague (b. Upwey, Dorset, m.2.
20 Dec. 1638 John Holland, bur. 3 May 1668 Tincleton, Dorset), Adm. 3 May 1634 Fordington
 IV. Anne- b.c.1593, m. 14 Jan. 1618/9 St. Georges, Fordington, Thomas Rose. Thomas and Anne
emigrated to New England and settled in Scituate.

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 3V. ANTHONY- b.c.1595, m.c.1615 MARGERY PRISSE (b. 1599 Fordington, d. 1662 Marshfield,
MA), d. 1686 Marshfield.

3II. ANTHONY (JOHN 1, THOMAS 2)

b.c.1595
m.c.1615 MARGERY PRISSE (b. 1599 Fordington, bur. 31 Dec. 1662 Marshfield, MA)
bur. 6 Oct. 1686 Marshfield

Anthony lived in Fordington as late as 1631. He was a church warden in 1622, 1627, and 1631. At the
Quarter Seesions at Sherborne from the 6th to 8th of April 1630, Anthony was sworn in as the Constable
for the Manor of Fordington. Two of the eight justices at the sessions, Sir Francis Ashley and John Brown,
J.P., were involved in the Dorchester Company. Constables at this time was a compulsory appointment.
Once you were summoned to appear at the next court you were to serve for a year unless you had a good
excuse as to why you could not. The Constable had to deal with felons, escaped prisoners, riots, disputes,
non-attendance at church, unlawful assemblies, business irregularities, licensing of ale houses, making
juror's lists, drunkenness, unauthorized building of homes and other structures, vagabonds, intruders,
militia muster rolls and taking lewd women to court and detaining deadbeat fathers of illegitimate children.
Over a third of all issues the Constables had to deal with were related to drinking. On 12 Apr. 1632
Anthony declared himself "to be of Fordington in Dorset, a Yeoman, where he had lived from infancy, born
there and aged about 40 or thereabouts".(2)

From the Port Books completed by the Kings Remembrancer we find that Anthony embarked on the
Recovery which sailed from Weymouth on 31 Mar. 1633 for New England.(1) He was a proprietor in
Charlestown, MA in 1634. On 10 Feb. 1634/5 Anthony signed the Selectmen Government Agreement
which set down how the citizens of Charlestown were going to select their representatives to the
Government. His wife Margery is of record of being admitted to the church at Charleston on 13 Sept. 1635.
Sometime afterwards, Anthony and his family removed to Hingham where, in 1636, he owned a house lot
in Hingham on the Lower Plain. He was admitted as Freeman on 09 March 1637. Anthony was Hingham’s
representative to the General Court from 1637 to 1639 and again in 1643 to 1645. He was a lieutenant of
the military company and then was chosen to be captain of the company during the military difficulties of
1644-5. However, the soldiers changed their minds and in a second election gave the rank of captain to
Bozoun Allen. The magistrates thought this an affront to Anthony and determined that the first election
should hold until the courts should take further order, however, the company would not obey their captain
and mutinied. In the legal battle that ensued the Deputy Governor "'justified all the particulars laid to his
charge; as that upon credible information of such a mutinous practice and open disturbance of the peace
and slighting of authority, the offenders were sent for, the principal by warrant to the constable to bring
them and others by summons, and that some were bound over to the next Court of Assistants, and others ,
that refused to be bound, were committed; and all this according to the equity of the laws established, and
custom and laws of England and our constant practice these fifteen years". The dispute went on for two
months and was finally settled by agreement to acquit Winthrop and to punish all the petitioners by fines.
So, Anthony returned to Hingham and took his office as Captain of the Militia.

Anthony was one of the Deputies to the General Court in 1638 who signed the charter granted by Winthrop
for the Military Company of Massachusetts that later became the Ancient and Honourable Artillery
Company, the third oldest chartered military organization in the world. On 12 June 1643, the town granted

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permission to Anthony Eames, Samuel Ward and Bozoun Allen for developing and operating the first corn
mill for the town. In 1641 he also assisted in laying out the boundary between the Massachusetts Bay
Colony and the Plymouth Colony.

Old Ship Church, Hingham

Capt. Anthony lived in Hingham until about 1650 when he moved to Marshfield. Anthony, together with
his son, Mark, bought a house and 100 acres on the North River on 10 Dec. 1651. Capt. Anthony was
Deputy from Marshfield to the General Court at Plymouth from 1653 to 1658 and again in 1661. He was a
member of the Council of War and served for many years as Moderator of the town. He was admitted a
freeman in the Plymouth Colony on 7 June 1653.

Issue-

 ?I. Anna- b.c.1614, m. William Ford (d. 23 Sept. 1676 Marshfield, MA), d. 1 Sept. 1684 Marshfield
 II. John- bpt. 24 Jan. 1619 Fordington, d.s.p. 3 Nov. 1641 Hingham
 III. Persis- bpt. 28 Oct. 1621 St. Georges, Fordington, m. 1645 Scituate, Michael Pierce (m.2. Anna
______, killed by Indians 26 Mar. 1676 Pawtucket), d. 31 Dec. 1662 Hingham
 IV. Elizabeth- bpt. 13 June 1624 St. Georges, Fordington, m. 1 Apr. 1651 Hingham, Edward Wilder (d.
18 Oct. 1690 Hingham), d. 9 June 1692 Hingham
 V. Justus- bpt. 29 Apr. 1627 St. Georges, Fordington, m. 20 May 1661 Marshfield, Mehitabel
Chillingworth, will 27 May 1697-20 May 1706 Marshfield
 VI. Margery- bpt. 5 Dec. 1630 St. Georges, Fordington, m. 20 Oct. 1653 Hingham, John Jacob (b. 26
Feb. 1629/30 Hingham, m.2. 3 Jan. 1661 Mary Russell, d. 18 Sept. 1693 Hingham), d. 7 Apr. 1659
Hingham
 4VII. MILICENT - b.c.1616, m. 26 May1635 Charlestown, WILLIAM SPRAGUE (d. 26 Oct. 1675
Hingham), d. 8 Feb. 1695/6 Hingham
 VIII. Mark- b.c.1617, m. 26 May 1648 Hingham, Elizabeth Andrews (Adm. 19 Oct. 1693 Marshfield),
will 12 July 1693 Marshfield
 IX. Abigail- b.c.1632, m.1.c.1657 Charles Stockbridge (inv. 23 Feb. 1683/4), 2. Nathaniel Turner, d.
May 1709/10 Scituate

Ref:

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(1) Records of the Exchequer at the PRO- E190/875/8
(2) The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635- Robert Charles Anderson, George F.
Sanborn Jr., Melinde Lutz Sanborn, NEHGS, 2001- Vol. II, pp. 387-92

Ref:

"History of the Town of Hingham"- George Lincoln, Vol. II, p. 208, Vol. III, p. 164

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