York, Oyster River, Isles of Shoals. Matricate (a student in a college or university) at St. Mary Hall Oxford, 22 May 1612, age 17, plebeian; B.A. 14 November 1614. Teacher and curate at Colyton County Devon, then rector of Northleigh, diocese of Exeter, 1621 - 1632 (resigned), he next appears age 40, leading the large company including his wife Agnes, age 25, 7 children and 3 servants, which arrived Boston 5 May 1635 and wnt to Wessaguscus, soon Weymouth. Freeman 2 September 1653. An Episcopalian, and also active in civil life, dissension soon came, even in his own church. in 1636 he was living in Hingham (the part now Hull). Commissioner to end small causes, Deputy September 1638 and Mar 1639, though still serving Weymouth, where he preached last in May 1639. Barnstable same year freeman 3 December 1639, Departed from Barnstable same month. Yarmouth 1641, there excommunicated, for his act in leaving Barnstable, a breach partly healed in March 1643 whe he and his wife were received back into Barnstable Church. Gov. Winthrop calling him “an excommunicated person and very contentious,” shows him at York before May 1643; there both he and his wife Agnes witnessed Henry Simpson’s deed in july 1645, he alone witnessed Henry Simpson’s will 18 Mar 1646-7. Apparently leaving all but his smallest children behind, he was at Launceston County, Cormwall, in 1652, called Mr. Joseph Hull, minister; 10 years later was ejected from the rectory of Buryan County, Cornwall. He returned to his children at Oyster River; later at the Shoals, these islands owing him £20 when he died. Admin to Widow Agnes, the chief item in his inventory”His books £10.”76
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