Andrew ALGER, Sr.^{[1, 2, 3, 4]}

1618 - 1675  (57 years)

• Name	Andrew ALGER
  Suffix	Sr.
  Birth	1618	Dunston, Devinshire, England   [5]
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1640	Saco, York, Maine   [2, 6]
  Occupation	1644	Scarborough, Cumberland Co., Maine   [6]
  	Supervisor Of Fisherman - Stratton's Island
  Death	9 Oct 1675	Scarborough, York, Cumberland Co., ME   [6, 7]
  Probate	30 Jun 1676	Salem, Essex, Massachusetts   [7]
  _UID	D5E0353310AE4DF0A1BBD9D49E3888C645EE
  Person ID	I112680437	Carney Wehofer July 2025
  Last Modified	5 Feb 2012

  
  

  Father	John ALGER,   b. Dunstone, Devinshire, England d. 1630
  Mother	Agnes UNKNOWN,   b. Dunstone, Devinshire, England d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	_STATMARRIED
  Family ID	F50573360	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Agnes Anna -Judith- UNKNOWN,   b. Abt 1621   d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	Abt 1640	Scarborough, Cumberland Co., Maine
  	_STATMARRIED
  Children	1. John ALGER, Sr.,   b. 1640-1641, Scarborough, Cumberland Co., Maine d. Jan 1717, Bristol, Bristol Co., Rhode Island (Age 76 years)   2. Joanna ALGER,   b. Abt 1642-1643, Scarborough, Cumberland Co., Maine d. Yes, date unknown   3. Unknown ALGER,   b. Abt 1642   d. Yes, date unknown   4. Matthew ALGER,   b. 1643, Scarborough, Cumberland Co., Maine d. 1690, Scarboro, Cumberland Co., Maine (Age 47 years)   5. Andrew ALGER, Jr.,   b. 1643-1648, Scarborough, Cumberland Co., Maine d. 21 Sep 1699, Scarboro, Cumberland Co., Maine (Age 51 years)   6. Elizabeth ALGER,   b. 1644, Scarborough, Cumberland, Maine d. 21 Aug 1732, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts (Age 88 years)
  Family ID	F50572442	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016

  
  

• Notes

  Also Known As:<_AKA> The Immigrant Name Prefix: Lt. Name Suffix:Sr. Cause of Death: Indian Attack Ancestral File Number: 8KMN-7C BIRTH: Noted possible birthplace as Dunston, Norfolk, England (1610-1615). He is also noted as being born in Yealmpton, Devonshire, England about 1610 by Patrick McDonald. Noted as being born in Charlestown, Suffolk, MA about 1610. I amgoing with information retrieved from Familysearch.com by LDS contributors. BIOGRAPHY: Andrew was a fisherman by trade. He was also a juryman, constable, selectman and surveyor. Andrew ALGER named his plantation "Dunster" after hisbirthplace.He named this tract of land "Dunstan." "Blue Point" was named afterapart of Yealmpton, Devonshire. a thousand acres of land with his brother Arthur ABT 1651 Blue Point, It was purchased from the localIndians. One of the Indians made a formal declaration confirming the1651 sale on 19 Sep 1659. Immigrated in 1632 to Richmond's Island, Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland, ME U. S. A. He immigrated with John Winter to go fishing and became one of the first Maine fishing captains DEATH: Andrew ALGER was killed with his brother Arthur by Indians.10 Oct as result of Indian attack at Scarborough. Noted dates for his death are 10/9, 10 or 12th. LDS: LDS Baptism: 13 MAY 1919 /Endowment: 23 JAN 1924 posted by Evan Leon Earl

  
  

• Sources

  [S1094] Kristin Nielson. [S1097] New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 105/265 (Reliability: 3). [S1098] James Phinney Baxter, editor, The Trelawny Papers, (Portland, ME; 1884 Found in "Collections of the Maine Historical Society" 2nd series, Volume 3), Pg 245 (Reliability: 3). [S1099] Sybil Noyes, Charles Thornton, Libby & Walter Goodwin Davis, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, (1928-1939; Republished Blatimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing co., Inc., 1996), pgs 60-61 (Reliability: 3). [S375] Assorted Family Gedcom Entries to LDS FRC, LDS Family Research Center - Ancestral File. [S1097] New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 29/270-271 (Reliability: 3). [S1100] Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins, Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA, 1995).