Master carpenter, never mariner nor captain. Age unknown, only his wife was born about 1628. In 1647 fined for calling Godfrey old knave and criticizing Captain Champernowne’s; in 1650 he had lately been living on Champernowe’s Island in Kittery, and was buying land in York. Apparently he had built a home on Champernowe’s Island and not getting his pay burnt it; judgement of court october 1650 that he replace as good and as large a house. His deed from Mr. Hooke, 18 July 1650, recites that he had already built and fenced there. He had left York in June 1648, when he sold his York home to john Parker, carpenter, of Marblehead, which nay imply a prior acquaition, but was back in 1651. In Dover, where he was permanent settled by 1654, he was much relied on by Major Waldron. Will 2 April 1687. His wife Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Joseph Hull, is commen. by Revs Cotton Mather and John Pike.76
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