Robert Long, Sr.

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Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
Name: Robert Long
Year: 1635
Age: 45
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1590
Place: Boston, Massachusetts
Source Publication Code: 263
Primary Immigrant: Long, Robert

Source Bibliography: BANKS, CHARLES EDWARD. The Planters of the Commonwealth; a Study of the Emigrants and Emigration in Colonial Times: To Which Are Added Lists of Passengers to Boston and to the Bay Colony; the Ships which Brought Them; Their English Homes, and the Places of Their Settlement in Massachusetts, 1620-1640. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1930. 231p. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1961. Repr. 1984. Page: 167

Source: Directory of the Ancestral Heads of New England Families, 1620-1700, compiled by Frank R. Holmes, Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc., p. clii (152)

Long, Robert came to Charlestown, Mass. from Dunstable, County Beford England.

Robert Long was born about b. abt. 1590 in St. Albans, Herfordshire, England; and died 9 Jan 1663/4, age 73 in Charlestown, MA; Occupation: innkeeper; He appears to belong to the London family of innholders, and left London 7 July 1635 on the ship Defence, bringing with him a certificate signed by the minister and justice of the peace at Dunstable, Bedfordshire, listing the names and ages of his second wife, his ten children, and his servants.

In 1636 he started the "Three Cranes Inn" or "Grand Ordinary" at Charlestown, which remained in his family for nearly a century. The building had been built in 1629 at the foot of town hill. It was occupied by the First Church of Charlestown and later was called the "Great House" and used as the Town Hall. It was burned down 17 June 1777, when Charlestown was set afire by British troops evacuating the city.

The Long family on Nantucket, and probably other parts of the New England coast, trace back to him. Robert Long married (1) 3/5 Oct 1614 in St. Albans, Hertfordshire ENG to Sarah Elizabeth Taylor, daughter of John and Margaret (Willmote) Taylor. She was born 29 May 1595 St. Albans, England and died 12 Dec 1631 in Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England. He married (2) abt.1630/33 Elizabeth Robert born abt.1603/5 in England and died May 29 1687 age 84 in Charlestown, MA

NOTES: From Long Genealogy by Hallock P. Long; and The Pioneers of Massachusetts, by Charles Henry Pope: Robert Long emigrated on 7 Jul 1635 from London, England, Robert ae.45, with wife Elizabeth, ae.30 and children Michael, ae.20, Sarah, ae.18, Robert ae. 16, Eliza ae.12, Anne ae.10, mary ag.9, Rebecca and John ae. 8, Zachary ae. 4 and Joshua 9 mos. with servant Luce Mercer, cert. from Dunstable, England . [NEHGR 14:315]. He owned the "Grand House" at the foot of Town Hill in 1636 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Mass. The British during the Revolutionary War burned it 17 Jun 1777. He was admitted to the church in Charlestown with wife Elizabeth on 17 Apr 1636. His will dated 10 Jul 1658, and bequeaths to wife and children: Joshua, John, Michael, Zechariah, daughters: Kempthorne, Ruth, Deborah, Hannah, Rebecca (Rooe), Sarah (Hill), Elizabeth (Parker), Anna (Converse). His estate probated on 6 Feb. 1663.

From Directory of the Ancestral Heads of New England Families 1620-1700 by Holmes: ROBERT, came to Charlestown, Mass., 1635, from Dunstable, County Bedford, Eng.

Robert married Sarah Taylor 03 Oct 1614, St Albans, Hertfordshire, , England. Sarah (daughter of John Taylor and Margaret Willmote) was born 20 May 1595, St Albans, Hertfordshire, England; died 12 Dec 1631, Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England. [Group Sheet]

1. Robert Long, Jr. was born Between 1619-1621, England; died 27 Dec 1690, Newbury, Essex, MA.

John married Marie. Marie was born 1569, St Albans, Hertfordshire, England. [Group Sheet]

Gyles married Alice. Alice was born 1539, Dunstable, Bedfordshire, , England; died 1566, England. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Other sources have Catherine Giulford of Hertfordshire as his wife.

Joseph married Mary Ann Garland. Mary was born 1539, Dunstable, Bedfordshire, , England; died , England. [Group Sheet]