Increase Winn

Notes:

Headstone inscription
Here lyes ye body of Increase Winn, aged 28 years and 4 months, who deceased ye 1st of July, 1713.

Birth:
February 9, 1684-5

Notes:

was the first-born child recorded in Woburn

Increase married Hannah Sawtell on 13 Jul 1665 in Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Hannah (daughter of Richard Sawtell and Elizabeth Pople) was born on 10 Dec 1642 in Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; died on 18 Feb 1723 in Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Hannah Sawyer

Other Events:

• Immigration: 1638, Charlestown, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; from England
• Occupation: 1638; Carpenter
• Signed: 1640, Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; Signed Town Orders
• Resided: Dec 1640, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts
• Event: 1641, Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; original planters of Woburn
• Resided: Apr 1641, Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
• Event: 1643, Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; Took oath of Freeman
• Tax Rolls: 1645, Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
• Held Office: 1669, Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; Selectman
• Court: 12 Jun 1670; Testified in court
• Court: 23 Jun 1670; on jury
• Will: 06 May 1682, Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Notes:

1643 Edward took the oath of Freeman

EDWARD (JR.) was a carpenter hired at Broughton, England and brought over to America by Barnabas Davis with his family. In 1638 EDWARD (age 33) settled at Charlestown, Massachusetts.

By December 1640 EDWARD (JR.) (age 35) and family were in Boston, Massachusetts.

By the spring 1641 EDWARD (JR.) had moved to Woburn, Massachusetts as a first settler where he surveyed and was a selectman.

According to Middlesex County Abstracts Court files 1649-1675 http://www.newenglandancestors.org/research/database/Middlesex_MA/default.asp on On 6/23/1670 Edward Winn on a jury of inquest on Samuel Converse and gave his age as 70 (MCA 2:96). Therefore the birth date of Edward Winn (Jr.) would not be 1605 as Rootsweb source indicates if he was 70/71 in 1670 if these are the same Edward Winn. SOURCE: Janice Graves

He settled first in Charlestown, Massachusetts, and was one of the commissioners for founding the contemplated town of Woburn. He one of the signers of the "town orders," or by-laws, for Woburn in 1640, one of the original planters of that town in 1641, and was taxed in the first tax rate of Woburn, 1645. He was also the father of the firstborn child. He was made freeman 1643, and selectman 1669. His will was made at Watertown, May 6, 1682, and he died September 5, 1682. His residence was near a place in Woburn, known as the Vineyard, at which was a watering-place (on present Park street), the house being on some spot near Middlesex, Chestnut and Kilby streets.
- old woburn website

Birth:
1605 Wales
- J A Kratzner

Immigration:
1638: IMMIGRATION TO AMERICA
- J A Kratzner

1641
- James Keller tree

Occupation:
Was a carpenter hired at Broughton, England and brought over to America by Barnabas Davis with his family

Signed:
He one of the signers of the "town orders," or by-laws, for Woburn in 1640

Resided:
By December 1640 EDWARD (JR.) (age 35) and family were in Boston, Massachusetts.

Event:
one of the original planters of that town in 1641

Resided:
By the spring 1641 EDWARD (JR.) had moved to Woburn, Massachusetts as a first settler where he surveyed and was a selectman.

Event:
1643 Edward took the oath of Freeman

Tax Rolls:
taxed in the first tax rate of Woburn, 1645

Held Office:
selectman 1669.

Court:
Edward Winn testified in court on inquest considering Henry Simmonds and was age 71 (MCA 2:103).

Court:
Edward Winn on a jury of inquest on Samuel Converse and gave his age as 70 (MCA 2:96)

Will:
His will was made at Watertown, May 6, 1682

Edward married Joanna Sargent in 1626 in England. Joanna (daughter of William Sargent and Katherine Stevens) was born in 1605 in England; died on 08 Mar 1648 in Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
8 March 1647/1648

Richard married Elizabeth Pople on 05 Feb 1627 in High Ham, Somersetshire, England. Elizabeth was born on 27 Oct 1611 in High Ham, Somersetshire, England; died in 1694. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
5 Feb 1627/1628

Edward married Berkley. (daughter of Rowland Berkley and Hayward) was born about 1581 in England; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

William married Katherine Stevens on 22 Nov 1602 in St Peter & Paul Abbey, Bath, Somersetshire, England. Katherine was born in 1573 in Bath, Somersetshire, England; died in in England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]