THE POLSON-CHENEY FAMILY

        Husband: Abraham "Abraham" Belknap
           Born: about 1589
       Baptised: 10 MAR 1588/89 in Sawbridgeworth, co Herts, England (1)
        Married:
           Died: SEP 1643 in Lynn, Massachusetts
         Father: Bennett Beltoft
         Mother: Grace Adam
        Spouses: 
           Wife: Mary
           Born:
           Died:
         Father: 
         Mother: 
        Spouses:
Children
01          (M): Abraham Belknap
           Born:
           Died:
        Spouses: 
02          (F): Hannah Belknap
           Born:
           Died: 21 NOV 1679 in Massachusetts (2)
        Spouses: Christopher Osgood
03          (M): Samuel Belknap
           Born: about 1627
           Died:
        Spouses: Sarah Jones
04          (M): Joseph Belknap
           Born: about 1630
           Died: 14 NOV 1712 in Boston, Massachusetts (3)
        Spouses: Ruth Williams; Lydia Ingalls; Hannah Meakins

Additional Information

Abraham "Abraham" Belknap:

Notes:
Abraham was mentioned in the will of his grandfather who bequeathed 10s to "Abraham Beltofte sonne to Bennett Beltoft my Godchilde".

There is no record of when Abraham emigrated to New England, but it was probably around 1635. In 1638 he received a grant of 40 acres of land in Lynn, MA.

Abraham's will has never been found, but the inventory of his estate has been preserved. The net amount of his worth was 47 pounds, 17s, and the mark of his wife, Mary, appears on the document. The inventory contained the first mention in Essex County of pot-hooks and hangars, brass pot and frying pans, spit and dripping pans.

Footnotes

  1. New England Historical and Genealogical Register, English Origins of New England Families (Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc. Baltimore, 1985), Series 2, Volume 1, Page 170.
  2. Ibid., Series 2, volume 1, page 173.
  3. Edited by Frederick A. Virkus, First Families of America (1925), 2022.

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