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Personal data John Macomber 

• He was born in the year 1585 in Bridport, Dorsetshire, England.Sources 1, 5
• (Arrival) in the year 1643 in Massachusetts.Source 2
• He died on July 6, 1650 in Bridport, Dorset, England, he was 65 years old.Sources 1, 5
• He is buried in St. Mary's Bridport, Dorset, England.
• A child of Thomas Macomber and Thomasine Staphill

Household of John Macomber

He is married to Edith Locke.

They got married on June 8, 1607 at St. Mary's Bridport, Dorset, England, he was 22 years old.Sources 1, 4, 6

Child(ren):

1. William Macomber  1610-1670 
2. John Macomber  1613-< 1690
3. Thomas Macomber  1623-1643

Notes about John Macomber

The Mary & John left Plymouth, England March 20, 1630 with her unknown Master, arriving in Nantasket Point, now Dorchester, Mass., at the entrance of Boston Harbor on March 20, 1630, two weeks before the Winthrop Fleet arrived.
These families and passengers were recruited by the Reverend John White of Dorchester, Dorset. Nearly all of the Mary and John 1630 passengers came from the West Country counties of Somerset, Dorset , Devon, and West Country towns of Dorchester, Bridport, Crewkerne and Exeter.
The passengers of the Mary and John 1630 founded one of the first towns in New England, Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1630 and also founded the town of Windsor, Connecticut five years later in 1635
Other information says the master was Thomas Chubb, and they landed in Dorchester. "140 passengers, but the list has never been found."

· MACOMBER is the name of a Scottish family which was taken to Ireland by settlers. The name is MacComaidh in Gaelic, a name meaning the son of Tommie or Tommy. In Perthshire the name was frequently Englished as Thomson. MacComy was a common surname in Breadalbane 250 and more years ago. The Glenshee MacComies date their rise from the latter half of the 14th century. They appear as a distinct family in Glenshee in the 16th century, and in a feu-charter of the lands of Finnegand and Glenbeg, granted in 1571 to John M'Comy Moir they are described as being 'ab antiquo' tenants and possessors of these lands. Scottish surnames fall into two quite distinct groups; those of Gaelic origin and those of English origin. The Gaelic language was brought to Scotland from Ireland around the 5th century AD, displacing the British language (an early form of Welsh) previously spoken there as well as elsewhere. Gaelic was the main language of that part of Scotland not subject to English influence, a rather more extensive area than the present day Highlands and Islands, where Gaelic is still spoken in places. It is from these northwestern and western area of Scotland that surnames of Gaelic origin, now almost universally Anglicized in form, have been disseminated around the world. Many factors contributed to the establishment of a surname system. For generations after the Norman Conquest of 1066 a very few dynasts and magnates passed on hereditary surnames, but most of the population, with a wide choice of first-names out of Celtic, Old English, Norman and Latin, avoided ambiguity without the need for a second name. As society became more stabilized, there was property to leave in wills, the towns and villages grew and the labels that had served to distinguish a handful of folk in a friendly village were not adequate for a teeming slum where perhaps most of the householders were engaged in the same monotonous trade, so not even their occupations could distinguish them, and some first names were gaining a tiresome popularity, especially Thomas after 1170. The hereditary principle in surnames gained currency first in the South, and the poorer folk were slower to apply it. By the 14th century however, most of the population had acquired a second name.

· Exerpt from the book Macomber Geneology by Everett Schermerhorn Stackpole
· The old tradition concerning "three brothers" who came to America seems to be verified in the case of the Macombers, for William was in Duxbury in 1638; Thomas in Plymouth in 1643;
and John in Taunton in 1643. No descendants of Thomas have
been found. Those of William are numerous. The descendants of John are traced here. John Macomber was admitted as a freeman and enrolled in the
militia of Taunton in 1643. He was granted permission to build a mill in Taunton in 1659. There were then four persons in his family, and there is no record of more. The name of his first wife has not been learned. He married, 7 Jan. 1686, as his second wife, Mary Babcock. He was in a military company in 1680. He was living in 1687, as shown by a deed.
Another deed shows that he died before 1690. He was a carpenter by trade. His property was equally divided between a
daughter, Mary Staples, and a son, John Macomber.

John Macomber, 2d, signed a deed with his father in 1672, showing that he was then of age. He served in military companies in 1680 and 1700 and also in Queen Anne's War in 1691.
He married, 16 July 1678, Anna Evans, daughter of William and Ann (Hailstone) Evans of Taunton.

William Evans was enrolled in the militia of Taunton in 1643 and took the oath of fidelity there in 1657. He married Ann Hailstone, probably daughter of William Hailstone, who was one of the first purchasers of Taunton in 1637 and was living there
in 1672. The inventory of the estate of William Evans was made 16 Sept. 1671. He left daughters Mary and Anna.

June 28, 1723, John Macomber, "oldest of that name in Taunton," and Anna his wife sold to their son Thomas land in Taunton on "Mill River," — See County Records at Taunton, XVI.51.

Jan. 5, 1724-5, Anna Macomber, "for good cause," sold to her son Thomas land in Taunton. Her husband was then dead.
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