John Cloyes

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CENSUS RECORDS

Massachusetts, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1790-1890
Name: John Cloise
State: MA
County: Middlesex County
Township: Oath of Fidelity
Year: 1652
Page: 187
Database: MA Early Census Index


HISTORICAL RECORDS

John Cloyes was a member of Captain Mason's military training band.3 May 1656;

Source: Cloice Report of Winifred Lovering Holman; Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire
For 30 pounds, John sold the Watertown house 'where my late mansion house was by God's providence burnt down' along with interest in the meeting house, to Samuel Stratton.
Wife Jane released dower to the Watertown property .
He bought house, barn and marsh land near 'the neck' in Charlestown, MA.

Source: The Cloyes Family; Savage's
By 1658 he was living in the west side of the Penobscot River in Maine. It was here, on his own property, that he was killed by Indians in 1676.

The inventory of the "Estate of John Cloyes (Clays), deceased, being a fisherman and mariner, killed by the Indians" is on file together with papers of Administration of his estate, said Administration granted to one William Wood. (Cloyes and Dagwell Family Genealogies - Obetz) (see Phipps Family source)

John married Abigail Mournings 1637, Massachusetts. Abigail was born , England; died Bef 1656, Watertown, Middlesex Co. MA. [Group Sheet]

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Married:
U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
Name: John Clayes
Gender: Male
Birth Place: MA
Birth Year: 1604
Spouse Name: Abigail
Marriage
Year: 1637
Marriage State: MA
Number Pages: 1

1. John CLOYES, II was born 26 Aug 1638, Watertown, Middlesex Co., MA; died 1719, Wells, York Co. ME.