Joseph Bacon

Joseph married Margaret Bowen on 6 Nov 1688 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA. Margaret was born on 26 Jan 1668 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 19 Feb 1727 in Woodstock, Windham, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Thomas Baker

Thomas married Mary Martha Gamlin on 27 May 1663 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA. Mary was born on 6 Mar 1641 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA; died in 1690 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Mary Gamlin

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• Residence: Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA
• Departure: 1635
• Residence: 1635, Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA

Notes:

GEORGE BACON 1592-1642

George Bacon came to America and the Plymouth colony of Hingham, Massachusetts in 1635 on the ship "Increase." He came with three children, Samuel, Susanna and John.

The Increase left London, England April 1635 with her master, Robert Lea, arriving in Massachusetts Bay. The following roll is from her departure point, not necessarily who landed.
Bacon/Baron George 43, mason #1
Bacon/Baron Samuel 12, child of George #2
Bacon/Baron Susan 10, child of George #4
Bacon/Baron John 8, child of George #3
By roll number: Sworn April 17, 1635
1 Bacon/Baron George 43, mason
2 Bacon/Baron Samuel 12, child of George
3 Bacon/Baron John 8, child of George
4 Bacon/Baron Susan 10, child of George

According to the genealogy of the great Suffolk family of Bacon, one Grimbald or Grimaldus, a relative of the Norman chieftain William de Warenne, came to England at the time of the Conquest and settled near Holt in Suffolk. His great grandson took the surname Bacon or rather resumed the use of the place name as a surname. In the north of France the surname Bacon is still in use William Bacon in 1082 endowed the Abbey of Holy Trinity at Caen. The surname Bacon is found in the Battle Rolls in England in the eleventh century and in the Hundred Rolls in the thirteenth. There are occasional variations in spelling such as Bacun and Bachun and in some instances the surname Bacon may have been corrupted from Beacon. From their connection with Bayeux the Bacons were sometimes Latinized De Bajocis. Sir William Bacon, of the knights bearing banners in the reign of Philip III in France, bore arms a beech tree.

Grimaldus mentioned above had three sons: 1. Radulph; 2. Edmund, took the name of his abode for his surname; 3. Ranulph or Ralph was known as Ralph de Baconsthorp, means village his son. Roger de Baconsthorp was father of Robert Bacon who assumed the name without the particle implying location and the name has continued in various lines of descent. George, son of Ralph de Baconsthorp, was father of Roger Bacon, who released to his sister Agnes lands belonging to the family in Normandy, and from him for many generations descended the Bacons of Drinkstone and Hessett in county Suffolk. The lineage to Nathaniel Bacon of Virginia the famous Rebel of early colonial days has been traced. The Bacon family at Hessett bears these arms Argent on a fesse engrailed between three escutcheons gules three millets or. Richard Bacon (7) whose lineage is Reginald (6); Robert (5); Roger (4); George (3); Ralph (2); Grimaldus (1) was the first to bear the arms of his family: Gules on a chief argent two mullets sable.

The original seat of the family was in Suffolk, near Ipswich, perhaps Barham, but families of importance of this name have lived and been numerous in Durham, Hampshire, Norfolk, Somerset, Yorkshire, and other counties. George Bacon Esq., of the Nottingham family, living at Sutton Bomington had arms. Vert a cross engraved ermine a chief argent thereon a ducal coronet gules between three mullets sable Crest - A mount vert thereon a boar argent bristled and tusked or semee of mullets sable in the mouth a ragged staff vert. Motto: Mediocria firma

(I) George Bacon, the immigrant ancestor, was born in Suffolk England in 1592 and removed to Ireland. He came in the ship “Increase” in April, 1635 and settled at Hingham, Massachusetts where he was one of the town proprietors in September, 1635. His name on the ship roll was originally written Mason crossed out and rewritten as Bacon. Perhaps the error was mere carelessness on the part of a clerk but often the Puritans found it necessary to take assumed names or adopt similar tricks to obtain permission to emigrate. One child was baptized in Hingham and several were probably born there. Samuel, Susan, and John were recorded as with their father in the “Increase”. He died in May, 1642 and was buried May 3. The administration of his estate was not granted until March 28, 1684-85 when Captain John Smith and Captain John Jacob were appointed on petition of Peter Bacon, son of George, who had maintained his aged mother until her death, and had purchased the rights of his brothers and sisters in the estate.

Children:
1. Samuel born 1623;
2. Susan born 1625;
3. John born 1627;
4. Peter, ancestor of Hingham family;
5. James settled in Roxbury;
6. Thomas mentioned below

(II) Thomas Bacon, the sixth child of George Bacon 1. was born in Hingham Massachusetts about 1640. died at Roxbury October 25. 1701. He settled in Roxbury as early as 1665.

Children:
1. Thomas Jr.;
2. Joseph born January 1, 1666, mentioned below;
3. George born September 12, 1671 died aged two years, probably named for his grandfather.

No further mention of Susan who married John Polley.

EARLY SETTLERS of Hingham, MassachusettsHINGHAM is one of the oldest towns in Massachusetts. There were settlers here as early as 1633. Its first name was Bearcove or Barecove, more likely the latter, in view of the exposure of almost its entire harbor at low tide, and as appears also in the spelling of the name in the order of the General Court referred to below. So far as it had any legislative incorporation, it was incorporated, and this has been the usual statement of writers, September 2, 1635, only eleven towns having in that respect all earlier date. Perhaps, however, the term incorporation is not appropriate in this connection, the brief order which the General Court, consisting of the Governor, assistants, and deputies, adopted and entered on that day being as follows, -- a form used before, and afterwards, in the case of several other towns:-- "The name of Barecove is changed and hereafter to be called Hingham.”

"In 1635, in addition to those before-mentioned (namely: Joseph Andrews, Thomas Chubbuck, Henry Gibbs, Edmund Hobart, Sen., Edmund Hobart, Jr., Joshua Hobart, Rev. Peter Hobart, Thomas Hobart, Nicholas Jacob, Thomas Lincoln, weaver, Ralph Smith), were Jonas Austin, Nicholas Baker, Clement Bates, Richard Betscome, Benjamin Bozworth, William Buckland, James Cade, Anthony Cooper, John Cutler, John Farrow, Daniel Fop, Jarvice Gould, Wm. Hersey, Nicholas Hodsdin, Thos. Johnson, Andrew Lane, Wm. Large, Thomas Loring, George Ludkin, Jeremy Morse, William Nolton, John Otis, David Phippeny, John Palmer, John Porter, Henry Rust, John Smart, Francis Smith (or Smyth), John Strong, Henry Tuttil, William Walton, Thomas Andrews, William Arnall, George Bacon, Nathaniel Baker, Thomas Collier, George Lane, George Marsh, Abraham Martin, Nathaniel Peck, Richard Osborn, Thomas Wakely, Thomas Gill, Richard Ibrook, William Cockerum, William Cockerill, John Fearing, John Tucker.

George Bacon came to America and the Plymouth colony of Hingham, Massachusetts in 1635 on the ship "Increase." He came with three children, Samuel, Susanna and John.

Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, by Robert Charles Anderson, George F. Sanborn, Jr., and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1999. Anderson, Volume I, A-B, pp. 127-129:

GEORGE BACON
ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1635 on the Increase
FIRST RESIDENCE: Hingham
OCCUPATION: Mason.
ESTATE: "The several parcels of land and meadow legally given unto George Backon by the town of Hingham": 18 September 1635, "for a houselot five acres of land"; 1635, "for a planting lot four acres of land"; 8 October 1637, 'for a greater lot fourteen acres of land lying upon the Great Plain in the first furlong to the eastward of the center"; and 10 June 1637, "two acres of salt marsh lying in Weymouth Meadow' [HiBOP 44r].

On 30 March 1670, "John Pollie of Roxbury having formerly had to wife one Susanna the daughter of one George Bacon of Hingham deceased which said George Bacon died possessed of houses and lands lying and being within the Township of Hingham aforesaid and one Edward Goold taking to wife the widow of the said Bacon," John Polley "and the aforesaid Susanna in the time of her life' sold to the said Edward Goold "all our right, title and interest had then or might have had hereafter in and unto all or any of the said houses and lands that the said George Bacon died possessed of" [SLR 12:357-58].

On 28 March 1672, 'Samuel Bacon of Hingham housecarpenter" sold to "my brother Peter Bacon of the same town abovesaid a third part of the great lot and what other part thereof shall fall to my share after the decease of my mother Margaret Gold now living in the same town, the which lot lyeth between a great lot of Thomas Hubbard's and the lot where the dwelling house of Peter Bacon aforesaid now standeth" [SLR 11:393].

On 2 February 1683/4, Peter Bacon of Hingham petitioned for administration of the estate of his late father, George Bacon of Hingham, stating that "whereas your petitioner's father, George Bacon of Hingham, many years since died intestate and his widow, your petitioner's mother, soon after married again and has had the improvement of all his estate as well real as personal until the time of her decease which was the last year and your petitioner has been at charge in maintaining his aged mother for a considerable time before her decease, and your petitioner having purchased of the rest of his brethren many years since all the right in their father's estate so that now your petitioner is the true and rightful

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owner of all the remains of his said father's estate and your petitioner understanding that this honored court did in his absence grant administration upon the said estate to strangers, upon your petitioner's request did forbid any action by virtue of the same. The court decided the same day to hold a hearing on the said petition [SPR NS 3:9-10]. On 28 March 1684, adminstration was granted to Capt. John Smith and Capt. John Jacob of Hingham, on "the estate of George Bacon sometime of Hingham many years since deceased' [SPR NS 3:10-11].

BIRTH: About 1592 (aged 43 in 1635 [Hotten 55]).
DEATH: Buried at Hingham on 3 May 1642 [NEHGR 121:14].
MARRIAGE: (1) By about 1623_______; she died in England between
1627 and 1635.
(2) Between 1635 and 1640 Margaret______; she married (2) EDWARD
GOLD [SLR 12:357-581. She died at Hingham on 6 or 7 February 1682/3 [HiVR 57; NEHGR 121:211]. (The first known child of Edward Gold was baptized at Hingham between 12 and 26 March 1642/3 [NEHGR 121:15], between ten and eleven months after the burial of George Bacon. This seems too early for the widow of George Bacon to have remarried, but no other wife of Edward Gold is known.)

CHILDREN:
With first wife
i SAMUEL, b. about 1623 (aged 12 in 1635 [Hotten 55]); living on 28 March 1672 [SLR 11:393]. (The Samuel Bacon who in. Hingham 17 December 1675 "Mary Jacob the daughter of John Jacob" [HiVR 36] was son of Nathaniel Bacon of Barnstable [SPR Case #1171].)
ii SUSAN[NAH], b. about 1625 (aged 10 in 1635 [Hotten 55]); in. about 1647 John Polley of Roxbury [TAG 41:206; SLR 12:357-58].
iii JOHN, b. about 1627 (aged 8 in 1635 [Hotten 55]); no further record.

With second wife
iv PETER, b. say 1640, bp. Hingham 17 September 1654 [NEHGR 121:104]; m. (1) Hingham 25 May 1670 Sarah Jenkins [NEHGR 121:124 (surname of bride not given)], who d. at Hingham 21 July 1677 [HiVR 41] (in his will of 2 March 1699, Edward Jenkins of Scituate bequeathed 5s. to "my granddaughter Mary Bacon" [PPR 1:311-12]; Peter Bacon had daughter Mary b. Hingham 14 or 15 July 1677
George Bacon 129
[Hingham Hist 2:16; NEHGR 121:205 (four children born to this couple, two of them known to have died young - also Sarah b. 15 April 1675, who probably also died young)]); m. (2) Hingham 19 February 1679/80 Martha (Howland) Damon [NEHGR 121:205; HiVR 5114], widow of John Damon of Scituate and daughter of Arthur Howland of Marshfield; she d. at Hingham 19 December 1732, in her 94th year [NGSQ 71:89-90].
MARY, b. Hingham 30 March 1642 [NEHGR 121:14], bp. there 17 September 1654 [NEHGR 121:104]; no further record. (Torrey's entry for Josiah Lane of Hingham gives his wife as Mary Bacon, who could conceivably be this Mary, but none of the references in the Torrey entry gives evidence for this identification.)

COMMENTS: "Geo[rge] Bacon,' mason, aged 43, and his children, "Samuell," aged 12, 'Jo[h]n," aged 8, and "Susan," aged 10, were enrolled at London on 17 April 1635 as passengers for New England on the Increase [Hotten 55].
Pope includes a "Ch. - bapt Nov. 27, 1640," but no such record appears in the Hobart Journal.
On 12 September 1671, Samuel Bacon sued Edward Gold for £40 for withholding and refusing to make satisfaction upon demand for a cow and all her increase 'about five & twenty years," with all due damages, the jury finding for the plaintiff in the amount of £16 and costs of court [SCC 1:12].
Samuel Bacon, "eldest son" of George Bacon, brought Suit against Edward Gold of Hingham for £45 on 23 October 1671 for withholding one third part of a dwelling house and several parcels of land lying in Hingham belonging to the said Samuel Bacon which were the lands of his said father, deceased, and also for improving the said lands for more than 24 years. The court found in the plaintiff's favor, awarding him the one third part of the "housing land & meadow," and £20 for the improvements, together with costs of court [SCC 1:12].
If the one-third share held by Samuel represented his double share as eldest son, then the implication is that there were five children to share in the estate of George Bacon. If this is the case, then George's son John (or an heir of John) was alive at the time of George's death, or there was another child of George, not otherwise accounted for.

George married Margaret Gold in 1617 in , , , England. Margaret was born in 1601 in Hawkhurst, Kent, England; died on 6 Feb 1683 in Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]