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• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1601 in Belinden Parish, Kent County, England.Bron 2
• Geïmmigreerd in het jaar 1630 vanuit Rhode Island, Verenigde Staten.Bron 2
• Geloof: Quaker.Bron 2
• Hij is overleden op 28 februari 1677 in Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, USA, hij was toen 76 jaar oud.Bron 2
• Een kind van Christopher Almey en Clarke
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 31 juli 2013.

Gezin van William Almy

Hij is getrouwd met Audrey Barlowe.

The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 71
pg 311

The first clue as to the English home of William Almy was revealed in 1910, when among the marriage licences published by the British Record Society in "Leicestershire Marriage Licences, 15701729," appeared that of William Almie, gentleman, of South Kilworth, and Audrey Barlowe of Lutterworth, granted in 1626.* This printed record was found a few months later by G. Andrews Moriarty, Jr., A.M., a member of the Council of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, who communicated it to several genealogists and later, with other information at that time in print in regard to the ancestors of the immigrant to New England, to the Essex Institute Historical Collections.

MARRIAGE: By license dated 17 July 1626 Audrey Barlow ("Williamus Almie de South Kilworth," gent., "etatis 26 annorum," and "Audream Barlowe de Lutterworth ... etatis 26 annorum," with the consent of Stafford Barlowe of Lutterworth, gent., father of said Audrey (Archdeaconry of Leicester Marriage Licences, 1621-1632, folio 28v; NEHGR71:3181

Zij zijn getrouwd juli 1626 te England, hij was toen 25 jaar oud.Bron 3

Kind(eren):

1. Ann Almy  1627-1709 
2. Christopher Almy  ± 1631-????
3. John Almy  
4. Job Almy  
5. Catherine Almy  

Notities over William Almy

Historic families of America: William Almy of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, 1630
By: Miller
pg 9-12

It was in the company of such men as John Winthrop, John Eliot, Isaac Johnson and their class, that we find one of the Almy family of England coming to America, to plant the name which has branched out through New England and the United States.

William Almy, the common ancestor of all who bear the name in America, was a native of Belinden Parish, Kent County, England, and was born in the year 1601. He first came to this country in company with John Winthrop and his associates about the year 1630, probably in 1629,* when Winthrop, for his superior executive ability and acknowledged integrity, was elected governor of the New England Colony.
[John Winthrop, Isaac Johnson and his wife, Lady Arbella Johnson, sister of the Earl of Lincoln, with others, sailed from England in the ship Arbella, April 10, 1629].

The Abigail must have been a stout, commodious vessel, judging by the enrollment of her passengers, made by the commissioners of emigration and filed in the Rolls Court, London.
Among the 700 men, women and children, shipped for this voyage in eleven vessels appear some names which became prominent in New England and, indeed, in the United States, among the passengers aboard the Abigail were:
William Almy,* aged 34 years [husband].
Audry Almy, aged 32 years [wife].
Annis Almy, aged 8 years [daughter].
Christopher Almy, aged 3 years [son].

*The names as they appear in the official record at London are "William Almond, Audry Almond, Annis Almy, Christopher Elmie." This was William Almy's second voyage to America.

John, Elizabeth, and Deane Winthrop, aged respectively, 27, 19 and 11, are also enrolled on the list of the Abigail's passengers.
The date of sailing is not given but the ship could not have weighed anchor before the 10th of July, 1635, which is the date of enrollment of John Winthrop, son of the governor of Massachusetts Bay, but she seems to have landed her passengers safely in Boston on the 8th day of October of the same year.
William Almy did not follow the fortunes of his fellowpassenger. John Winthrop, son of the governor, had been commissioned to establish a trading fort on the Connecticut River, and it would seem from this, that Almy had already formulated his plans and prepared for the reception of his family at Sagus, near Lynn, Mass.

Historic families of America: William Almy of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, 1630
By: Miller
pg 13-14

On April 3, 1637, Almy, with nine other men was given liberty to view and locate a place which would comprise sufficient land for the maintenance of three score families, and in the same month he removed with his family to Sandwich, Mass.

On April 16, 1640, he received a grant of eight and a half acres, but he seems not to have been satisfied with Sandwich as a place of abode, for he removed to Portsmouth, R. I., in 1641, and on June 22, 1642, he sold his house and land in Sandwich to Edmund Freeman, of that place, in the consideration of ???18.

In 1644 he secured a grant of land at Wading River, and on January 5, 1656, he sold eight acres of it to Richard Bulgar.

William Almy was a member of a sect known as "Friends," afterward designated as "Quakers" by Justice Bennett, of Derby, in 1650, because George Fox, in one of his eloquent flights of oratory bade the people "quake at the word of the Lord."

The first use of this epithet, found in the records of parliament, was made in the journal of the House of Commons in 1654.

Almy soon became a prominent man in Portsmouth; honest, intelligent and well-to-do, he was frequently appointed to official stations in the town of his adoption.

He was made a freeman in 1655; in 1656 he served on a jury; during the year between 1656 and 1663 he was commissioner. It was in this last year that Almy, now 63 years of age, was one of four men to insure the prompt payment of the tax due from the town of Portsmouth to the government. In 1668 he served as foreman on a jury.
Three children were born in America, to wit: John, Job and Catharine. (Christopher, the eldest son, was born in England, in 1632.)

William Almy died in Portsmouth, on February 28, 1677.

The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 71
pg 321-322

7. William Almey or Almy (Christopher, Thomas, John), of South Kilworth, co. Leicester, England, and of Saugus (Lynn), Mass., Sandwich in the Plymouth Colony, and Portsmouth, R. I., gentleman, only son of his father, born, probably at Dunton-Bassett or South Kilworth, Co. Leicester, about 1600,* died, probably at Portsmouth, R. I., between 28 Feb. 1676/7, when he made his will, and 23 Apr. 1677, when his will was proved. He married at Lutterworth, Co. Leicester, by licence of 1626, Audrey Barlowe of Lutterworth, who was born about 1602 and was living 28 Feb. 1676/7.

He was executor of his father's will, which he proved 29 Oct. 1624, and was the defendant in a suit in the Court of Requests in 1625 which had been begun against his father. He was in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1631, returned later to England, and, with his wife Audrey and two children, Anna (or Annis) and Christopher, embarked again for New England in the Abigail in 1635.f After living at Saugus (Lynn), Mass., for a year or two, he became one of the founders of Sandwich in the Plymouth Colony, being one of the "tenn men of Saugust" to whom the Court of Assistants of that Colony, on 3 Apr. 1637, granted "liberty to view a place to sitt downe," with "sufficient lands for three More famylies."t He left Sandwich before 7 Dec. 1641, when a calf belonging to him was attached "to answere the jury vj" vjd, and iij8 to the clarke for the charges of a suite he left vnpayd when hee lefte the towne of Sandwich."? On 22 June 1642 he sold his dwelling house and all his lands in Sandwich to Edmond Freeman the Younger, || and soon afterwards appears as a resident of Portsmouth, R. I., where he received a grant of land on 14 Nov. 1644. He was freeman at Portsmouth in 1655, and was later juryman and commissioner.

In his will of 28 Feb. 1676/7 he requests that his body be buried beside his son John, gives to his wife for her lifetime all his estate, and provides that at her death half of the farm next to the land which he gave to his son John shall go to his son Christopher, while the other half of the farm, with dwelling house, two orchards, etc., shall go to his son Job. The malt house is not to be divided, but is to be held in equal shares and kept for a malt house every season. To each of his daughters, Anna and Catharine, he gives two parts of his cattle and movables, and to each of his sons, Christopher and Job, one part. To his grandchild Bartholomew West he leaves ???20, to be paid to him when he is twenty-one years of age. He makes his sons Christopher and Job executors*

Children :
i. Anna (or Annie), bapt. at South Kilworth, Co. Leicester, 26 Feb. 1626/7; brought by her parents to New England in 1635, aged 8; d. 6 May 1709; m. abt. 1648 John Greene, Deputy-Governor of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, bapt. in the parish of St. Thomas, Salisbury, co. Wilts, Eng., 15 Aug. 1620, d. 27 Nov. 1708, s. of John and Joan (Tattershall).t Eleven children,

ii. Christopher, of Portsmouth, R. I., b. abt. 1631: brought by his parents to New England in 1635, aged 3; d. 30 Jan. 1712/13; m. 9 July 1661 Elizabeth Cornell, who d. after 1708, dau. of Thomas and Rebecca. Nine children.

iii. John, of Portsmouth, R. I., d. s.p. 1 Oct. 1676; m. Marty Cole, dau. of James and Mary. She m. (2) in 1677 John Pococke.

iv. Job, of Warwick and Portsmouth, R. L. d. in 1684; m. Mart Unthank. who d. after 1724, dau. of Christopher and Susanna. She m. (2) Thomas Townsend. Eleven children,

v. Catherine, m. Bartholomew West, who d. before 1703, s. of Matthew. Four children.

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