Abigail Brisco COMPTON

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Abigail brought to USA when John and Susannah came to Roxbury, Mass. 1634 -- J & S stayed in Boston Area for about 10 years till 1646 then went to NJ

Abigail married Joseph BRISCOE on 30 Jan 1652 in Roxbury, Church, , Mass. Joseph was born about 1630 in Of, Roxbury, , Mass; died on 1 Jan 1658 in Roxbury, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Joseph BRISCOE was born about 1655; and died.

Abigail married Abraham BUSBY on 23 Sep 1658 in Boston, Massachusetts. Abraham was born in 1632 in Massachusetts; was christened in in Bef 1664 To Charles Co MD; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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John left Cranbrook, Kent, England for America in 1634 at the age of 29. Roxbury was his first residence in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was one of eleven men who, "having license to depart, summons is to go out for them to appear (if they not be gone before) at the next court, the third month, to answer such things as shall be objected".

He was among the Boston men disarmed on 20 November 1637/38. John was an ?Antinomian? claiming that living a devout, 'saintly' life excused them from obeying civil laws. The Puritan Orthodoxy held this as one of their tenets. However, living a saintly life could not help an individual to receive grace - to claim otherwise would be to preach a covenant of works. The Antinomians wanted sanctification to play no part in justification whatsoever. The Orthodox Church?s standpoint was that if Antinomians didn?t need to obey any laws, they would eventually become libertines. Clearly this presented problems for the political stability of the colony.

He was in Piscataway New Hampshire from 1638 to 1640 and left for Maryland shortly thereafter, before returning to Boston in 1640.

John Compton of Boston in New England, clothier, gave power of attorney to Robert Scott of Boston, merchant, to "recover his title to certain lands (with power to rent the said lands) to him descending". Legal/Court Date: 17 Nov 1646 Age: 41 Legal/Court Place: Suffolk County, Massachusetts.

On 20 Jun 1648 he and eight other men were given "liberty to build a highway from their houses, over the marsh to the bridge "and were freed from paying highway charges for nine years in recompense". This liberal freedom from taxation was later amended to pay each man 9 pounds, 16 shillings.

Sources
International Genealogy Index

Small Hope Biggs left 5 shillings to John Compton, now of New England, on 3 may 1638 in Cranneboro, Kent Co England.
John was at Roxbury church 1634 in Mass and moved 1642 to Boston

was in Piscataway NH from 1638 to 1640 and since left from there to Md shortly after that time. John and Susannah returned to Boston ca 1640

Wife died 1664 listing husband John as "long dead"

When Small Hope Bigg died, he left a bequest to his cousin (John Compton) who was then living in the Massachusetts colony and another cousin found an Elizabeth Bigg who married a William Compton in 1595. Grandparents of our first William?

Name: John Compton I Sex: M Birth: 1603 in Kent Co, England Death: in Roxbury, MA

Marriage 1 Susanna Ann Freeman
Event: Unknown-Begin in England
Children
John Compton II b: 1629 in England
Abigail Compton
William Compton b: 1631 in England
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I have the wills of John Bigge and his mother Rachell Bigg, both of whom left
money to John Compton. Both of their wills mention that he came to New
England from Crannbrook, Kent, England. Analysis of the wills by a
contributor to the New England Historical Genealogical Society said that the
Bigg?s and Compton?s are related. I have searched the Bigge surname from
1450 forward to 1650 and find no relationship to Compton listed; therefore,
I am assuming that the connection came via his mother Rachell Bigge and I
have not determined a surname for her.

I believe that he left Kent England for religious reasons as his name
appears in religious "uprisings" in Boston. Religion - Puritan.


Name: John COMPTON1
Birth Date: bef 1605
Birth Place: England
Birth Memo: Purportedly Crannbrook(e), Kent, England. Crannbrook is a
market town in the parish and hundred of its name, and in the lower division
of the lathe of Scray; 48 miles S.E. from London, 30 S.W. from Canterbury,
14 S. from Maidstone, 8 W. by N. from Tenterden-and 38 N.E.from Brighton, 22
N. from Hastings, and 18 N.N.W. from Rye in Sussex.
Residence Date: 1634 Age: 29
Residence Place: Roxbury, Massachusetts
Residence Memo: Roxbury was his first residence in the Massachusetts Bay
Colony.
Migration Date: 1634 Age: 29
Migration Place: England - Boston, Massachusetts
Religious Notes Date: 16343 Age: 29
Religious Notes Place: Roxbury, Massachusetts
Religious Notes Memo: He was admitted as member #105 among the 1634
immigrants.
Residence Date: 16374 Age: 32
Residence Place: Boston, Massachusetts
Residence Memo: He was disarm. with the majority and removed from Roxbury
to Boston.
Religious Notes Date: 12 Mar 1637 / 16383,5 Age: 32
Religious Notes Place: Boston, Massachusetts
Religious Notes Memo: He was one of eleven men who, "having license to
depart, summons is to go out for them to appear (if they not be gone before)
at the next court, the third month, to answer such things as shall be
objected".
Religious Notes Date: 20 Nov 1637 / 16383,6 Age: 32
Religious Notes Place: Boston, Massachusetts
Religious Notes Memo: He was among the Boston men disarmed on 20 November
1637/38. The Antinomian Controversy: Justification by Sanctification: Living
a devout, "saintly" life could be used as evidence for justification (the
Puritan Orthodoxy held this as one of their tenets). However, living a
saintly life could not help an individual to receive grace - to claim
otherwise would be to preach a covenant of works (remember that an
individual can have no say in his/her election). To a certain extent,
Antinomianism is an extension of Puritan logic - the Antinomians wanted
sanctification to play no part in justification whatsoever. From the
Orthodoxy's standpoint, the implication was that Antinomians would not need
to obey any laws (hence the term "anti-nomian"), and would eventually become
libertines: Clearly this presented problems for the political stability of
the colony.
Residence Date: 1638 - 1640 Age: 33
Residence Place: Piscataway, New Hampshire
Residence Memo: This is purported data and no supporting evidence has been
found.
Legal/Court Date: 3 May 16387 Age: 33
Legal/Court Place: Crannbrook, Kent, England
Legal/Court Memo: Smallhope Biggs left 5 shillings to John Compton now of
New England on 3 May 1638 in Cranneboro, Kent County, England. When
Smallhope Biggedied, he left a bequest to his cousin (John Compton) who was
then living in the Massachusetts colony and my cousin found an Elizabeth
Biggewho married a William Compton in 1595.
Legal/Court Date: 3 Oct 16388 Age: 33
Legal/Court Place: Crannbrook, Kent, England
Legal/Court Memo: In the will [dated 3 May 1638 and proved 3 October 1638]
of Smallhope Bigg, clothier, the following is written: "To my kinsfolk
Thomas Bate of Lydd, James Bate, Coement Bate, the wife of Wiliam Baychelor,
John Compton, Edward White and Martha his wife, all of which are now
resident in New England, twenty shillings each.
Religious Notes Date: 25 Sep 16429,10 Age: 37
Religious Notes Place: Boston, Massachusetts
Religious Notes Memo: He was admitted to the Boston Church:".... laborer
upon letters of admission from our sister Church of Roxbury and profession
of his faith in the public assembly".
Legal/Court Date: abt 164311 Age: 38
Legal/Court Place: Crannbrook, Kent, England
Legal/Court Memo: In the Will of John Bigg, he is left "twentie shillings"
along with Edward Whitt, John Moore, Thomas Bridgden and Goodman Beale that
went from Crannbrook. He is mentioned along with other townsmen who went to
New England: Clement Bate and William Bachelor. [Note: Bachelor was a
minister and eventually led a group from Boston to New Hampshire.]
Residence Date: 1645 Age: 40
Residence Place: Boston, Massachusetts
Residence Memo: He owned one house and one garden.
Legal/Court Date: Oct 164512 Age: 40
Legal/Court Place: Boston, Massachusetts
Legal/Court Memo: John Compton of Boston in New England, clothier, gave
power of attorney to Robert Scott of Boston, merchant, to "recover his title
to certain lands (with power to rent the said lands) to him descending".
Legal/Court Date: 17 Nov 164613 Age: 41
Legal/Court Place: Suffolk County, Massachusetts
Legal/Court Memo: In the will of Rachel Biggs, the mother of John Bigg,
Smallhope Bigg, Hopestill BiggeFoster, Daughter m. John Stow, Daughter m.
Peter Masters are named along with "Thomas BEall, John Compton, goodwife
Turner, the wife of Richard Brittan, goodman Mead, old Margery, goodwife
Phebe, goodwife Hill, goodwife Patching:.
Legal/Court Date: 26 Feb 1648 / 16493,14 Age: 43
Legal/Court Place: Boston, Massachusetts
Legal/Court Memo: He and eight other men were given "liberty to build a
highway from their houses, over the marsh to the bridge" and were greed from
paying highway charges for nine years in recompense". Note: This liveral
freedon was amended to "[such time as] the sum of L8 16s. be run out which
they have dispursed".
Miscellaneous Date: 20 Jun 164815 Age: 43
Miscellaneous Place: Boston, Massachusetts
Miscellaneous Memo: His name was on a list of bills to Mr. Jonathan
Brewster, owing 363 pounds.
Death Date: bef 1664 Age: 59
Occupation: Laborer16,17
Occupation: Clothier18

John married Susannah Elisabeth FREEMAN. Susannah was born about 1605 in Cranneboro, Kent, England; died in 1664 in Piscataway, Middelsex, New Jersey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Susannah Elizabeth Freeman B. 1609 -- D. 1664 NJ 1st Child-- Abigail brought to USA when John and Susannah came to Roxbury, Mass. 1634 -- J & S stayed in Boston Area for about 10 years till 1646 then went to NJ --at least 4 children born Roxbury area, Data on Ancestry
Info from Cort Posluszny gmail.

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According to the Compton/Wyngates John Compton the 1st would be the son of Thomas Compton and his father was Henry Compton and His Father was Peter Compton. This is where it get confusing Henry Compton Had nephew named Henry he was The Bishop of London He adopted John the 1st when his father Thomas Died and brought him back to England and then sent him back to America. -------------------- Comptons are an ancient family, traceable to the Anglo-Saxon Alwyne, circa (ca.) 1042, a contemporary to King Edward the Confessor, in the times before surnames. "Compton" means a settlement (town) in or on a hill. Alwyne's son Turchill (or Turchid), Saxon Earl of Warwick at the time of the Norman conquest (1066), did not assist the English King Harold (contrary to his father, who "fought valiantly" against the invading forces according to Comptonology), thereby earning the gratitude of William the Conqueror. (See also Wynyates for a narrative of this early history. Lord Compton cites Collins, whom I have been unable to locate.) He was therefore allowed to retain his lordship and many landholdings, and an inspection of the Domesday Book is replete with Compton estates. Turchill became one of the early English to have a surname "de Eardene" (presumably from his residence at Arden). His son Osbert had several sons, including Philip (ca. 1200), who were the first in the line to take the surname de Compton. Philip was followed in the line by Thomas, Philip, Robert, Robert, Thomas, Edmund, William, Robert, Edmund, William (where the Wm. Bingham Compton document ends, ca. 1482), son Compton (possibly Peter, b. ca. 1500), Henry, William, Spencer, to our first American William, b. 1622 in Gravesend, New York. The researcher can compare the Bingham Compton document to Wyngates and observe the close (but not completely consistent) parallels in the genealogies. There is an ancestral (portions dating back to the 12th century) castle in Warwick, England, called Compton Wynyates [sometimes referred to as Wyngates], or "Compton in the Hole" (for its topography), which has been modified over the years and circumstances. The castle is the principal subject of Compton Wynyates. COMPTONS For a discussion of this and other coats of arms, see Compton Wynyates, p,. 28 citation infra. This one is the most distinguished of the Comptons, traceable to Sir William Compton. The royal lion here was conferred by Henry VIII.
Compiled by: Stephen Compton 1999

Thomas married Elizabeth BIGGE. Elizabeth was born about 1590 in Cranbroke, Kent Co., England; died on 21 Aug 1638 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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November 1, 1590
Baptism of Elizabeth
Cranbrook, Kent, England