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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 (pp.1-3):
ROBERT MANSFIELD was born in England about 1594 (1797 Mr. and Mrs. Warner) and died at Lynn, Mass., 16 Dec, 1666 (Lynn V,R.) and married ELIZABETH in England.
Robert, with his wife Elizabeth. their son Joseph and daughter Elizabeth came from England to Lynn, Massachusetts about 1640. Their sons Andrew and John had preceded them in Lynn, as shown by two recorded depositions made by Andrew. At a court held in Ipswich 26 March 1661 Andrew Mansfield, aged about 38 years, made affidavit that he had been an inhabitant of Lynn "aboute two or three and twenty yeares." (Lewis and Newhall, History of Lynn, 1865 ed., p,17E).
On 30 Nov. 1062, before the court at lpswich, in the case of Brown vs. Laughton, Andrew stated (Quarterly Courts of Essex Co., Vol. VIII' pp.25e-257)that "about 43 years since (1639), he and his brother John bought of Mr. Manton, so called, a little house and house-lot and planting lot belonging to it in Lynn, and that the next summer their father, Robert. came into the country and they surrendered it up to him." It seems probable that Andrew and John came to Boston as early as 1636.
. Where the Robert Mansfield family came from in England is not clear. They are said to have come from Exeter, Devonshire (Ms. Genealogy # 166, The Mansfield Family, in the Lynn Historical Society library.- Lewis and Newhall, p.187; Dr. Joseph Mansfield genealogy Ms, and manuscript of Charles F. Mansfield and Charles E. Lord, The Ancestors and Descendants of Lt. Tobias Lord, 1913, p. 191).
Other Sources say that they probably came from Norfolk County. Moulton says "investigations In England by C, H, Townsend Esq. of New Haven tend to show they came from Norfolk County whence came many of the early settlers of Lynn" also in manuscripts by Helen Mansfield, and Helen Lawton and Chandler's History of New Ipswich, N.H. It has not been possible to find any documentary evidence for either Exeter or Norfolk County.
. Robert Mansfield's name appears in many court and town records. His mark is found in Suffolk Deeds, Vol.II, p.266, dated 8 JAN 1665.
On 9 JUL 1644 he was suued by one John Poole, :for taking away his arms" (Quarterly Courts of Essex County, I:64).
On 5 JUL 1646, Robert was freed from paying a fine for not training, because of age (Quarterly Courts of Essex County, I:192).
On 31 AUG 1647 Robert was sworn constable of Lynn (Essex Inst. Hist. Coll., VII, p.18).
On 20 MAY 1650 (Essex Deeds, Vol.I, pp. 17 & 31) he bought four acres of salt marsh in Lynn from Samuel Bennett.
. By deed dated 10 JUN 1650 Robert, with the consent of his wife, Elizabeth, "in consideration of their son Andrew living with them until the time of his marriage as a faithful and obedient child, "gave him, as a child's portion, a house and house-lot, six acres, more or less, with the enclosure adjoining to the north end of it, the whole being bounded, easterly, by land of Hugh Burt and the Rocky Hill of Andrew Mansfield; westerly, by the house lot Thomas Townsend and the street; north by the County Highway (now Boston Street); and south, by the town highway; besides other property in various parts of Lynn.
. Robert did grand jury duty at Salem Court in June, 1654 (Quarterly Courts of Essex County III: 402-403)
. On 20 JAN 1659 Robert and his son John bought of John Dekin a house, barn, orchard and one-half acre of land, which property Robert and Elizabeth, and John and his wife Mary sold to Benjamin Brisco of Boston, on 6 MAR 1659/60. (Essex Deeds Vol.2, pp.62,76).
By the deed of 20 JAN 1659 Robert also bought three acres of land in Ramsdell's Neck, and ten acres which had been given to Dekin by the town of Lynn.
. Robert's will (Probate Records of Essex Co., Mass., Vol II, pp.78-79), was dated 3 AUG 1664 and was proved in Ipswich Court, 26 MAR 1667. The inventory of his estate was attested in the same court, 30 APR 1667, by his son, John.
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