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     Elizabeth Davidson married Daniel Reddington, son of John Reddington and Mary Gould, on 23 March 1680.¹ She died on 8 October 1731.¹

     Sarah Reddington was born on 12 March 1658/59.¹ She may have died before 15 November 1690, her father's death date, as she is not mentioned in his will.¹

     John Newmarch married Joanna (?).¹ He died on 21 May 1737.¹
     He and Joanna had one known child, Joanna (b 11 April 1690).¹

     Joanna (?) married John Newmarch, son of John Newmarch and Martha Gould.¹
     She and John had one known child, Joanna (b 11 April 1690).¹

     Thomas Newmarch married Abigail (?).¹
     He and Abigail had two known children, Thomas (b 6 April 1704) and Grace (bap 24 June 1705, d 25 May 1722).¹

     Abigail (?) married Thomas Newmarch, son of John Newmarch and Martha Gould.¹
     She and Thomas had two known children, Thomas (b 6 April 1704) and Grace (bap 24 June 1705, d 25 May 1722).¹

     Zaccheus Newmarch was born in 1653.¹ He married Frances (?).¹ He died on 13 August 1731.¹
     He and Frances had the following known children: Martha (b 11 December 1700), Hannah (b 28 September 1702), Sarah (b 26 June 1704), John (b 22 July 1708), Mary (b 16 November 1718).¹

     Frances (?) married Zaccheus Newmarch, son of John Newmarch and Martha Gould.¹ She died on 11 July 1731.¹
     She and Zaccheus had the following known children: Martha (b 11 December 1700), Hannah (b 28 September 1702), Sarah (b 26 June 1704), John (b 22 July 1708), Mary (b 16 November 1718).¹

     Martha Newmarch was baptized about 1653.¹ She married Samuel Balch on 27 October 1675.¹ She died on 7 July 1720.¹

     Samuel Balch married Martha Newmarch, daughter of John Newmarch and Martha Gould, on 27 October 1675.¹
     He was of Beverly, Essex Co., Massachusetts.¹

     Phebe Newmarch married Peter Penniwell.¹

     Peter Penniwell married Phebe Newmarch, daughter of John Newmarch and Martha Gould.¹
     He was a mariner.¹

     Sarah Newmarch was born on 16 July 1659.² She married John Cressy.¹

     John Cressy married Sarah Newmarch, daughter of John Newmarch and Martha Gould.¹

     John Gould was born on 1 December 1662.² He married Phebe French, daughter of John French and Phebe Keyes, on 10 November 1684.² He died on 5 November 1724 at age 61.²
     He was a weaver.² Rev. Daniel Gould described him as "a man of business, by his accounts. His education was good, and he appears to have been a man of note in the town."²

     Sarah Gould was born on 18 December 1664.^2,3 She married Joseph Bixby Jr., son of Joseph Bixby and Sarah Riddlesdale, on 29 March 1682 in Boxford, Essex Co., Massachusetts.^2,3 She died on 6 December 1723 (the Bixby genealogy says 4 December 1723) at age 58.^2,3

     Thomas Gould was born on 14 February 1666.² He married first Mary Yates on 2 December 1700.² He married second Mary Dorman, daughter of Timothy Dorman, on 13 January 1728/29.² He died on 29 June 1752 at age 86.²
     He was a weaver.³ Rev. Daniel Gould wrote "I know nothing peculiar to his character, only that he was a man very much set in his own way, which is peculiarly characteristic of the family."² He and his first wife Mary Yates had the following known children: Thomas (b 4 September 1701, d 1771), Jacob (b 16 January 1702/03, d 1787), Deborah (b 17 November 1704, d 30 January 1706), Deborah (b 23 September 1707, d 1767), Simon (b 8 March 1709/10, d 1803), Mercy (b 17 January 1711/12, d 1785), Yates (b 24 March 1713/14, d 11 August 1736), Benjamin (b 29 May 1716, d 1746), Nathaniel (b 9 November 1718, d 14 November 1747).²

     Samuel Gould was born on 9 March 1669/70.² He married Margaret Stone on 20 April 1697.² He died in December 1724 at age 54.²
     He and his wife Margaret lived in Boxford, Essex Co., Massachusetts.² They had the following known children: Sarah (b 25 February 1697/98, d 21 February 1786), Samuel (b 18 January 1701), Moses (b 18 September 1703), Patience (b 25 August 1709, d 1767), Jonathan (bap 4 September 1709, d 1758), Margaret (b 6 March 1712), Zaccheus (b 29 March 1715, d 1745), Hubbard (b 8 July 1720, d 1800).²

     Zaccheus Gould was born on 26 March 1672.² He married Elizabeth Curtis, daughter of John Curtis and Mary Looke, on 21 January 1701/2.² He died on 29 April 1739 at age 67.²
     He served as selectman for many years.² He and Elizabeth had the following known children: Elizabeth (b 13 February 1702/03, d 1742), Mary (b 11 March 1704/05, d 1789), Priscilla (b 4 August 1707, d 1744), John (b 29 January 1709/10, d 1778), Sarah (b 28 January 1711/12), Abigail (b 12 August 1715), Zaccheus (b 7 November 1717, d 2 January 1793), Eliezer (b 29 May 1720), Susanna (b 11 February 1722/23).²

     Priscilla Gould was born on 2 November 1674.² She married John Curtis, son of John Curtis and Mary Looke, on 15 April 1695.² She died on 16 June 1715 at age 40.²
     She and John had the following known children: Priscilla (b 27 January 1695/96), John (b 16 April 1697, d 27 August 1698), Nathaniel (b 13 March 1698/99), Lydia (b 8 April 1701, d 18 March 1736/37), Mary (b 22 January 1702/03), Sarah (b 4 July 1705, d 29 March 1706), twins Hannah (b 8 January 1712, d 24 October 1712) and Sarah (b 8 January 1712).²

     Joseph Gould was born on 24 August 1677.² He married Priscilla Perkins, daughter of Tobijah Perkins and Sarah Denison, on 14 January 1712/13.² He died on 4 April 1753 at age 75.²
     He served as a Captain in the militia.² He was selectman in 1727, 1732, and 1734, and representative to the General Court for many years.² From 1737 to 1741 he was taxed on 400 acres of land in Lunenburg, Worcester Co., Massachusetts.² He and Priscilla had the following known children: Priscilla (b 6 April 1714, d 28 jun 1797), Joseph (b 29 September 1715, d young), Amos (bap 22 March 1716/17, may have d young), Ruth (b 8 March 1718/19, d 1808), Mary (b 22 December 1720, d 17 June 1757), Anna (b 30 October 1722, d 29 June 1749), Sarah (b 23 November 1724, d 1801), Joseph (b 4 November 1726, d 1803), Daniel (bap 26 December 1731, d 28 August 1734), unnamed (b 1733, d 19 March 1733/34).²

     Mary Gould was born on 16 June 1681.¹ She died on 11 May 1689 at age 7.¹

     Phebe French was born on 8 May 1667.¹ She married John Gould, son of John Gould and Sarah Baker, on 10 November 1684.¹ She died on 25 April 1718 at age 50.¹

     Joseph Bixby Jr. was probably born in 1648 or 1649 in Ipswich, Essex Co., Massachusetts.² He married Sarah Gould, daughter of John Gould and Sarah Baker, on 29 March 1682 in Boxford, Essex Co., Massachusetts.^1,3 He died in 1725, probably in Boxford, Essex Co., Massachusetts.^3,1
     He was a farmer in Boxford, Essex Co., Massachusetts.³
     He served during King Philip's War in 1675, originally as part of the Rowley company under Capt. Samuel Brocklebank. On 29 November 1675 he and eleven others were transferred to a company led by Maj. Samuel Appleton, that took part in the assault against the Indians at Narragansett on 19 December 1675.³
     At a town meeting in Topsfield, Essex Co., Massachusetts, on 29 July 1681, even though he was not a member of the Topsfield church, he and Thomas Perkins Jr. were appointed to travel to Cambridge and accompany Rev. Joseph Capen from there to Topsfield, for discussion about possible service as minister.³
     On 22 March 1689/90 he was chosen as a freeman in Boxford.³ He was chosen as selectman in Boxford eleven times from 1688 to 1723, and on various committees from 1686 to 1705 that met with neighboring towns to agree upon town boundaries. He also served as constable in 1691; as moderator of the town meetings in 1694, 1695, 1699, and 1702; on committees to build the meeting house in 1699, and the minister's house in 1701; on the commiittee for seating people in the meeting house in January 1700/01 and in 1703; as tythingman in 1702; and on a grand jury in 1703.³ On 3 October 1687 he was taxed a total of 4s 3d in head tax (i.e., poll tax), plus a house, ten acres of land, and livestock.³
     On 5 October 1725 his oldest son Joseph was appointed administrator of his estate, which was valued at £350 12s 11d. Each of his children received a 1/10 share, except for Joseph who received a double share. All the real estate, valued at £293, was divided between the two oldest sons Joseph and John, who signed bonds to pay their siblings their shares. His daughter Priscilla and her husband Joshua Higgins filed suit against Joseph over her share, and were awarded £40, but the decision was overturned on appeal.³

More Information / Background

• King Philip's War
  
• Great Swamp Fight
  
• Soldiers in King Philip's War. See in particular Chap. 13.
  

     Joseph Bixby was baptized on 28 October 1621 in Little Waldingfield, co. Suffolk, England.¹ He married Sarah Riddlesdale, daughter of Edward Riddlesdale and Mary (?), intentions published on 15 December 1647 ("15 day of the 10th moneth A. D. 1647") in Ipswich, Essex Co., Massachusetts.² He died on 19 April 1701 in Boxford, Essex Co., Massachusetts, at age 79.²
     He probably emigrated to New England before 1638, since he is not listed, but his father is, in a muster roll taken in 1638 of all able-bodied males aged 16 to 60 in Suffolk, England.²
     In their marriage contract, he and his wife Sarah agreed to the following: to raise Sarah's two children from her first marriage, and teach them to read and write; to apprentice out the children by at least age 13 in trades determined by "Nathaniel Rogers. their Grandfather Wyat, and Ensigne Howlet"; in accordance with their father's will, to pay £10 to the older child and £5 to the younger at age 21, and to give them the books they were bequeathed; to pay an additional £5 to the two children, in whatever proportion Sarah desired; that Joseph would not make any claim to the land in Asington, Suffolk, England, that Sarah would receive rights to at the death of her mother.²
     Very soon after his marriage, he left Ipswich apparently without telling anyone his destination. In court in December 1647 Nathaniel Rogers and John Wyatt said that by leaving, his estate had been "weakened," possibly preventing his wife's children by her first husband from receiving the legacies due them. The court ordered that a portion of his property be attached to cover the legacies. It's not known where he went, although the author of the Bixby genealogy speculates that he may have returned to England to deal with his wife Sarah's estate there.²
     On 19 December 1648 he was one of 161 men in Ipswich who agreed to pay Major Denison £24 7s each year to "encourage him in his military helpfulness unto them." Joseph pledged 4s as his contribution, as much or more than most others.²
     He had a farm in Ipswich.² On 22 February 1649/50 ("22d 12 mo., 1649-50") he and three others received a grant from the town for meadow land not to exceed 16 acres.²
     In May 1658 he was part of a group of men from Ipswich that had taken the oath of allegiance but had not been chosen as freemen, that petitioned the General Court in Boston asking for an explanation of the law relating to their rights. The fact that he was not a freeman in 1658, at age 38, indicates that he was probably not a member of the Ipswich church.²
     In January 1653/54 the town of Rowley set aside a large tract of its land for a new Rowley Village (later Boxford), and divided the land among the Rowley proprietors. One of these men, Joseph Jewett, agreed to sell a large tract of his land to Francis Peabody, Joseph Bixby, Abraham Redington, and William Foster, but died on 26 February 1660/61 before the sale was finalized. His executors completed the sale, and Joseph Bigsby received about 500 acres on 1 July 1661, paying £23 6s 8d.² That same day he sold half of his newly-purchased land to Robert and Nicholas Wallis for £25.² He apparently moved there soon afterwards, and was taxed 9s 5d by the town of Rowley in 1662.²
     A new church was established in Topsfield, Essex Co., Massachusetts, in 1663, with Rev. Thomas Gilbert, who had recently arrived from England, as pastor. Residents of Rowley were invited to attend. On 5 May 1664 Rev. Gilbert and Joseph Bixby were both made freemen at a court session in Ipswich. This indicates that Joseph was then a member of the Topsfield church, and indeed he and his wife were later listed as members there, in 1684.²
     He trained with the Topsfield militia, and was chosen sergeant on 21 June 1666 ("21-4 mo., 1666"). However, in June 1671 he and others from the village were fined for neglecting their training in Topsfield. And, at some point after 1674 he was serving as sergeant of the Rowley militia.²
     On 3 February 1669, with John Ruck of Salem, he bought two 20-acre tracts of land in Topsfield for £4 5s.² He bought two acres of land bordering his property in Rowley Village on 8 September 1672.² On 9 May 1674 he bought more land in Topsfield from John Gould, and on 29 January 1676 expanded this property by buying adjoining uplands and meadows.²
     On 29 October 1673 he sold a 1/16 interest he owned in iron works in Rowley Village to Jonathan Wade of Ipswich. Within two years the works were destroyed in a fire, and he and Abraham Reddington were chosen to assess their value when the rest of the owners sued John Gould, who had allowed operation there to continue when the forge was in need of repair.²
     The interests of those living in Rowley Village and those in the town of Rowley often came into conflict. In 1667 Rowley voted that the people of Rowley Village should pay half of their minister's rate to Rowley and half to Topsfield. Two years later they were ordered to pay the same taxes to Rowley as the residents of Rowley.
     On 7 May 1673 six of the sixteen families in the village, including Joseph Bixby, petitioned the General Court, stating that when they purchased their property in the village it was to be "free from any engagement to the town of Rowley." They further noted that they were living seven to nine miles from Rowley but close to Topsfield, and that Rev. Gilbert took the position as pastor of the Topsfield church in 1663 under the condition that the people of Rowley Village would pay their share. They agreed, believing themselves to be free of responsibilities toward Rowley. They also noted that village residents had trained with the Topsfield militia, and that some had been chosen as officers. The petition asked that Rowley Village be declared free of Rowley, and joined with Topsfield.
     The General Court finally ruled on the petition in October 1674, saying that the village soldiers could train at either Rowley or Topsfield until they had their own minister, and enough people to establish their own training. This remained in place until October 1684, when the court ordered them to train with the Topsfield militia. This apparently came as a surprise, and led to a petition signed by by Joseph Bixby and three others "in the name of the rest" saying that following it led to much trouble and confusion, and that they could better serve the country by establishing their own training. The court agreed and repealed the order, stating that the villagers were then to be organized under officers chosen by the major-general.²
     In May 1685 Abraham Reddington, Joseph Bixby, Samuel Buswell, William Foster, and John Peabody, acting as representatives of the village and noting that there were then 40 families there, petitioned the General Court asking to be recognized as a township in order to obtain a minister. Until that time they said they would contribute to the support of the churches they were then attending. The petition was granted on 5 June, under the condition that the town of Rowley agreed. On 7 July 1685 committees from Rowley and Rowley Village met, with Joseph Bixby and five others representing the village, and agreed on the terms of separation and boundary lines. One of the conditions was that until they had obtained a minister, Joseph Bixby and four others, representing the village, would pay 20s in silver to Rowley each year. In July 1699 they were three years behind in this payment. By June 1686 the new town was known as Boxford.²
     In a tax list for Boxford dated 3 October 1687 he was taxed 3s 4d for 14 acres of land, a house, and livestock, but no head tax (i.e., poll tax), and was described as "an Old decrepit man." His son George, however, was taxed a total of 2s 9d in head tax (i.e., poll tax), plus tax for three acres of land and livestock, but not for a house. Joseph had thus probably turned over the farm to George, who was then living with him.³
     His will was dated 11 November 1699 in Boxford, Essex Co., Massachusetts, and not proved until 6 March 1703/04, after the death of his wife Sarah. In it he left: 44 1/4 acres to his son Joseph, including the land where he was then living, that he had received when he was married; 18 acres to his son George, where he was then living, plus 17 3/4 additional acres in various locations; and his 28-acre homestead to his son Jonathan, where Jonathan was also living, plus 4 acres of meadow. His son Benjamin was to receive £3 in corn from his sons Joseph, George, and Jonathan. His son Daniel had already received his portion of the estate, and his daughter Mary had already received her portion of £7 3s. His daughter Abigail was to receive £10 from the estate left by his wife at her death. The rest of land was to be equally divided among Joseph, George, and Jonathan, who were to maintain him and his wife the remainder of his life. After his death they were to provide his wife a cow year round, plus a hog and specified amounts of corn, wheat, cider, wool, and wood each year. She was also to have the use of the west end of their house, and receive a piece of eight each year from each of them.²

     Sarah Riddlesdale was baptized on 16 November 1623 in Assington, co. Suffolk, England.¹ She married first Luke Heard about 1642 in New England.^1,2,3 She married second Joseph Bixby, son of George Bixby and Anna Cole, intentions published on 15 December 1647 ("15 day of the 10th moneth A. D. 1647") in Ipswich, Essex Co., Massachusetts.² She died about 3 June 1704 in Boxford, Essex Co., Massachusetts.^4,2
     Several sources list Sarah Riddlesdale as Sarah Wyatt, daughter of John Wyatt, based on his will which refers to her as a daughter. More recent research shows, however, that she was actually his stepdaughter, from her mother Mary's first marriage with Edward Riddlesdale.¹
     In their marriage contract, she and her husband Joseph agreed to the following: to raise Sarah's two children from her first marriage, and teach them to read and write; to apprentice out the children by at least age 13 in trades determined by "Nathaniel Rogers. their Grandfather Wyat, and Ensigne Howlet"; in accordance with their father's will, to pay £10 to the older child and £5 to the younger at age 21, and to give them the books they were bequeathed; to pay an additional £5 to the two children, in whatever proportion Sarah desired; that Joseph would not make any claim to the land in Asington, Suffolk, England, that Sarah would receive rights to at the death of her mother.²

     Luke Heard married Sarah Riddlesdale, daughter of Edward Riddlesdale and Mary (?), about 1642 in New England.^2,1,3 He died in September 1647 in Ipswich, Essex Co., Massachusetts.^2,1
     His surname is given as Hurd in the Gould genealogy.³ He lived in Newbury, Salisbury, and Ipswich, Essex Co., Massachusetts.¹ He was a linen weaver.¹ His oral will was approved on 28 September 1647.¹

     Mary Yates married Thomas Gould, son of John Gould and Sarah Baker, on 2 December 1700.¹
     She and Thomas had the following known children: Thomas (b 4 September 1701, d 1771), Jacob (b 16 January 1702/03, d 1787), Deborah (b 17 November 1704, d 30 January 1706), Deborah (b 23 September 1707, d 1767), Simon (b 8 March 1709/10, d 1803), Mercy (b 17 January 1711/12, d 1785), Yates (b 24 March 1713/14, d 11 August 1736), Benjamin (b 29 May 1716, d 1746), Nathaniel (b 9 November 1718, d 14 November 1747).¹

     Mary Dorman was born on 26 October 1693.¹ She married first Joseph Stanley.¹ She married second Thomas Gould, son of John Gould and Sarah Baker, on 13 January 1728/29.¹ She died on 8 May 1763 at age 69.¹