Saturday, March 13, 2010

Thomas Orcutt 1677 Jane Emerson 1679

For deeply researched/sourced information about this family line please go to this site: http://www.queenanneswar.com/genealogy/orcutt.html
Note:  this link no longer works, but I'm leaving it as a source I had used.  If anyone knows if there is a new site for this family, I would like to know. 

Update 2020: I found another:  https://orcuttfamilyhistory.wordpress.com/ which looks like it takes the family back and has a LOT of sourced information.


H- 7th Ggrandfather
Thomas Orcutt
Parents William Orcutt and Mary Lane
Christened 2 Oct 1677 Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Note: IGI didn't give a date, but the above online address did, adding a disclaimer that the page was torn and so the date could have a double digit
Occupation: Farmer
Married 1) Jane Emerson 29 November 1703 Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts
2) (Widow) Margaret Ray Sutton 15 May 1744 Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Died 5 Dec 1749 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
Buried
Sources
Christening: Massachusetts Births and Christenings, IGI Film 0014791,0496902 IT1 Batch C501321 and Vital Records of Scituate Massachusetts to the year 1850, Volume 1 - Births (NEHGS), at the charge of the Eddy Town Record Fund Boston, Mass. 1909), pg 277.
Marriage: History of the Town of Hingham, MA, The Genealogies, vol. II, by George Lincoln, p. 100
His second marriageAn Orcutt Line by Judith Orcutt Holy Chapter 2 p 17 records it is his marriage, not his son's and page 19 tells HOW this was determined.
Family Search
ancestry.com
Thomas Orcutt Probate Record
Emerson Genealogy p 39-40, Suffolk Deeds 24: 176. Boston, Massachusetts.
Note: this regards Thomas and Jane's sale of her inherited (from her grandfather Joseph Emerson Sr.) share of property to her uncle James Emerson for 8 pounds.

Marriage Record from Massachusetts Vital and Town Records
 Transcription (spelling and punctuation left intact):
Thomas Orcutt was married to Jaen Emerson this 29th day of November 1703 by Maj. Samuel Eells
one of her majesties justises of the peace.


H - 7th Ggrandfather
Jane Emerson
Parents Joseph Emerson and Mary Moody Fellows
Born Abt 1679 Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts
Died sometime before 15 May 1744
Note:  her husband married the Widow Sutton by that date
Buried
Sources
An Orcutt Line by Judith Orcutt Holy Chapter 2 p17
Family Search
ancestry.com

CHILDREN

Jane Orcutt
Born 18 Dec 1704 Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Jane Orcutt's birth Record
Translation: B (meaning birth) Jane Orcutt the daughter of Thomas Orcutt and of Jane his wife was born the 18th day of December 1704.

Married Moses Pratt 5 Oct 1732 Cohassett, Norfolk, Massachusetts
Moses and Jane's marriage record
Translation: Moses Pratt and Jane Orcutt were married October the  5 1732 by the Rev'd. Nekesn Hobart

Children: Moses, Samuel
Died
Buried
Sources
An Orcutt Line by Judith Orcutt Holy Chapter 2 p17
Birth: Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915
Marriage: Massachusetts Marriages, 1695-1910
AGBI Vol 28 p 10
Family Search
ancestry.com
Thomas Orcutt (Jr)
Born 3 Jul 1707 Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Thomas's birth record  
Occupation: Trader
Married  Thankful Jenkins 17 Jan 1733 Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Thomas and Thankful's marriage record

Children: Edward, Seth, James, Luke, Reuben, Martha, Olive
Note: I have found records for all children except Luke and Reuben in Cohasset. There is a big space between James and Martha so Luke and Reuben probably are part of this family, but I would like documentation. If you have some, please share
2) (Widow) Margaret Ray Sutton 15 May 1744 Scituate, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Note:  this marriage is an Error!!! this is his stepmother, not his wife! Proven by deeds that this Thomas was still married to Thankful in 1745.
Died 1764 Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Sources
Birth: Massachusetts Town and Vital Records 1620-1988 for Hingham page 255
An Orcutt Line by Judith Orcutt Holy Chapter 2, pgs 17, 19, 25
Marriages: Massachusetts Compiled Marriages, 1695-1910
Family Search
ancestry.com
Mary Orcutt
Born 11 Feb 1710 Cohasset, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Mary Orcutt birth record
Married Luke Roberts 11 December 1737 Cohasset, Norfolk, Massachusetts
Mary and Luke Roberts marriage record - note the date
Mary Orcutt Roberts Headstone

Children: ???
Died 14 Jan 1773 Plymouth, Massachusetts
Buried Kings Chapel Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts
Sources
Birth: Massachusetts Town and Vital Records 1620-1988 for Hingham page 255 (just below Thomas's)
An Orcutt Line by Judith Orcutt Holy Chapter 2 p17
Marriage: IGI Film 0928191 IT2 Batch M502203 dated 1695-1751 and Massachusetts Marriages 1695-1910
Family Search
ancestry.com
Headstone: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/11242862/mary-roberts
H - 6th Ggrandfather
*Emerson Orcutt
Emerson's birth record





Born 1 Aug 1713 Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Married Mary Gardner 3 Apr 1735 Hingham, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Emerson and Mary's marriage record
Her surname is given as Garnett 
Children: Baby boy Orcutt, Elijah, Hannah, Mary, Emerson, Jane, David, Mary
Died 1777 Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Buried
Sources
An Orcutt Line by Judith Orcutt Holy Chapter 2 p17, also Chapter 3
AGBI Vol 128 p 8
Family Search
ancestry.com
Hannah Orcutt
Born 21 Feb 1717 Higham, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Married: Never married
Died 31 Jan 1735
Hannah's death record
Note:  there was a diphtheria epidemic (a.k.a. Throat Distemper) and Scarlet Fever in the area at this time and could possibly be the reason she graduated from life.
Sources
An Orcutt Line by Judith Orcutt Holy Chapter 2 p17
Information about the cause of death (link active as of 3 July 2020) : https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/great-throat-distemper-1735/
Family Search
ancestry.com
David Orcutt
Born 31 Dec 1720 Higham, Plymouth, Massachusetts
David's birth record

Christened: 1721 Higham, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Occupation:Weaver and Mariner
Married Sarah (?) abt 1749 Massachusetts
Children: Reuben, Keziah
Died 10 June 1757
COD: presumed drowned or hit by boom/rudder - see article
Boston New-Letter Thursday 12 May 1757 Issue 2862 Page 1 which would make Monday, the day the sloop and bodies were found, the 9th of May.  I have seen the date of death as 2nd of May elsewhere, so perhaps that was the day the gale hit and the sloop/bodies weren't washed ashore until then or they'd already been there a while and only found at that time. I'm waiting to hear from a family member why they listed that date.



Transcription from 3rd paragraph on anything in red you see are my notes, since I have no idea what some things were : On Monday, the second instant in the night, was castaway on Salt-House Beach near Plymouth, A Bumpkin Sloop (a 'bumpkin' is a boom or beam of timber projecting from the bow by which to extend the lower edge of the foresail to the windward), burthen about 30 Tons (how much the sloop was carrying at time), laden with sand, having a new windlass (apparatus for moving heavy weight), and new quarter-rails and stanchions (long thin post used to support craft's life lines); there was found on board her, the bodies of two men dead; the names of whom are at present unknown: any person or persons owning said vessel are desired to repair to Plymouth, where she now is, and they may have her, paying charges to Consider Howland of said Plymouth.



Since the above, we learn that the names of the persons are, David Orcutt of Cohasset, and Robert Vinal of Scituate. Tis supposed that one of their deaths was occasioned by the boom or rudder, there being very high gales of wind that day after they left Squam, where they loaded. Tis uncertain what occasioned the other's death; he was found almost buried among the sand in the hold.
NOTE:  According to Google Maps, Squam, where the men left for their voyage, was about 102 'walking' miles from Plymouth where the bodies were found. The storm pushed them north at least that far, up into Cape Cod Bay and, eventually, Duxbury (a.k.a. Salt House Beach - 8 miles north of Plymouth).    The article doesn't not let us know if the body that was nearly buried was David's or Robert's.
Buried
Sources
Birth: Massachusetts Town and Vital Records
Christening: Massachusetts Births and Christenings
An Orcutt Line by Judith Orcutt Holy Chapter 2 p 17, 25-26
Index of Obituaries in Boston Newspapers 1704-1795 Vol 3 1968,
Death: US Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast
Death notice: Boston New-Letter Thursday 12 May 1757 Issue 2862 Page 1
AGBI
Family Search
ancestry.com
Google Maps

4 comments:

  1. Do you know anything about Thomas Orcutt's grandson James Orcutt? I would like to know more information about his wife Clarissa, but I may have her name wrong.

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  2. This is actually my husband's line. All I have is the link at the top of the page and the information I already typed in. Sorry. Anyone else out there with the information this person is looking for? Please share.

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  3. The link no longer works, but thank you for the information here!

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    1. Here is another link
      https://orcuttfamilyhistory.wordpress.com/

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