- "Mansfield Genealogy - Descendants of Robert and Elizabeth Mansfield and Sons Andrew and Joseph who came to Lynn 1639-1640" compiled by Geneva A. Daland & James S. Mansfield, M.D., 1980 (p.5).
The will of Joseph Mansfield, dated 4 Apr. 1694 and proven 2 July 1694 (Probate Records Essex Co. 3:166) gave to his son Joseph "my now dwelling house and my lot with my housing upon it, and the orchard." These were the premise Joseph had received by gift from his father, Robert, 16 Jun 1652; also several parcels of salt and fresh marsh. To son John "that piece of land I bought of Mr. Ruck, adjoining to the land that was Andrew Townsend's:" also upland in Ramsdell's Neck, and salt marsh. He mentions that John had been gone to sea about five years, and "I knoe not whether he be dead or alive; if he is dead or never comes home to new England, then son Joseph is to have all (that was) bequeathed to John. If John have occasion to sell, then Joseph is to have refusal, giving as much as another would give. To daughter Elizabeth 20 pounds in corn, cattle or goods; or if she claims land, then to have three acres of fresh meadow in the great meadow in the country, in lieu of the 20." Elizabeth's husband Joshua Wheat, died in 1692, in his 94th year. Essex Court records give his name as Joshua Witt, and in Lewis and Newhall's History of Lynn it is "J. Wait." Their children were Moses, b. 30 May 1676, d. 15 June 1676, and Mary.
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- "Mansfield Genealogy - Descendants of Robert and Elizabeth Mansfield and Sons Andrew and Joseph who came to Lynn 1639-1640" compiled by Geneva A. Daland & James S. Mansfield, M.D., 1980 (p.5).
. Pagse 9-10: JOSEPH MANSFIELD (Robert1) was born in or before 1628 (de Forest, 1930), died 22 April 1694 at Lynn (Lynn V.R.). He Married before June, 1652, ELIZABETH NEEDHAM, who died 25 Feb. 1662 at Lynn (Lynn V.R.), daughter of Edmund and Jone Needham of Lynn.
Jospeh was sworn as a freeman at a court held in Salem, 27: 4: 1649.
He was a soldier in the Narragansett War in 1675 (Mass. Colonial Records 5: 70).
He was listed as in Capt. Samuel Appleton's company, 10 Dec. 1675 (N.E. Hist. Gen. Reg. 38: 441).
In 1685 he was one of 25 Lynn residents who signed a petition to the Massachusetts General Court for remuneration for their service in the 1675 war (Lynn Town Records 27 May 1685).
On 8 Jan. 1691 a Lynn Town Meeting voted "yt Matthew Farington, senr., Henry Silsbee, and Joseph Mansfield, senr., should sit in ye Decons seats." (Records of Town Meetings of Lynn, 1691-1701, published by Lynn Historical Soc., 1949).
At a meeting of Lynn selectmen, 29 Feb. 1692, Joseph Mansfield was chosen one of five surveyors of the highways, and
at a meeting 7 March 1693/4 he was chosen one of three Tithing Men (pp.10,22).
The will of Edmund Needham, Joseph's father-in-law, dated 26: 4th mo.: 1677, and proved 29: 4th mo.: 1677 (Quarterly Courts of Essex County, VI: 303) makes bequests to Joseph's four children: "First, (to) his son Joseph Mansfield, one yo (young) sheep, and to his next son, John Mansfield, whom I have brot up ever since his childhood till now he is about 15 years old, to him, the said John Mansfield I give one cow and on you sheep not exceeding 4 years old, and to his daughter, Elizabeth Wheat, on yo sheep, and to Deborah Mansfield on yo sheep."
The will of Joseph Mansfield, dated 4 Apr. 1694 and proven 2 July 1694 (Probate Records Essex Co. 3:166) gave to his son Joseph "my now dwelling house and my lot with my housing upon it, and the orchard." These were the premise Joseph had received by gift from his father, Robert, 16 Jun 1652; also several parcels of salt and fresh marsh. To son John "that piece of land I bought of Mr. Ruck, adjoining to the land that was Andrew Townsend's:" also upland in Ramsdell's Neck, and salt marsh. He mentions that John had been gone to sea about five years, and "I knoe not whether he be dead or alive; if he is dead or never comes home to new England, then son Joseph is to have all (that was) bequeathed to John. If John have occasion to sell, then Joseph is to have refusal, giving as much as another would give. To daughter Elizabeth 20 pounds in corn, cattle or goods; or if she claims land, then to have three acres of fresh meadow in the great meadow in the country, in lieu of the 20." Elizabeth's husband Joshua Wheat, died in 1692, in his 94th year. Essex Court records give his name as Joshua Witt, and in Lewis and Newhall's History of Lynn it is "J. Wait." Their children were Moses, b. 30 May 1676, d. 15 June1676, and Mary.
. A deed dated 16 JUN 1652, by Robert, gave to his son, Joseph the homestead first referred to, on condition that he should provide for his father and mother during their lives. (Quarterly Courts of Essex County, VIII, pp.254-256). These pemises were bounded, east, by John Witt; west, by Francis Burrill; south, by the County Road; and north, by "The Rocks", and consisted of nine acres, with buildings and orchard. Robert and his wife doubtless lived and died on these premises, which remained in the possession of their descendants for several generations. The old house, whch stood on Boston Street at thhe sorner of Moulton Street, entil about the 1890's is said by tradition to hhave been built in 1666. Joseph Moulton, a descendant, repaired and remodelled it in 1844. His widow, Anna Mansfield, lived in it until shhe died, in 1895. The deed of 1652 to his son, Joseph, also included eight other parcels of land in Lynn, totalling 34 acres.
From the "Wall Family Tree" database on Ancestry.com:
. JOSEPH MANSFIELD, born in England, youngest son of Robert and Elizabeth Mansfield, married Elizabeth Needham, daughter of Edmund Needham of Lynn, who in his will bequeathed to son-in-law Joseph Mansfield's children, naming each of the four. He had outlived his daughter, their mother. Joseph's wife died the 25th of the 12th month (Feb.) 1661/2. During King Philip's war he was a trooper in Captain Appleton's company and was in the Great Swamp Fight December 19, 1675. In 1685, citizens of several Massachusetts towns, men who had been in active service in the war, petitioned the General Court for a grant of land in the Nipmugg country, and his name is on the Lynn list. The petition was granted; but the Andros administration came into power, and probably the Indian outbreaks at intervals thereafter also contributed to delay, so that it was nearly fifty years before new settlements were opened up, and but few of the original grantees were then living.
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