The probable means of John Gifford's acquaintance with Sir R

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The probable means of John Gifford's acquaintance with Sir R

Legg inn av John Brandon » 11 jan 2006 01:27:01

1. John Gifford was a business partner/rival of Capt. Thomas Breedon.
See Hartley's _Ironworks on the Saugus_ and Gifford's 1680 letter to
Mr. Hilliard Verin of Salem ( http://tinyurl.com/a2b9j ).

2. Capt. Thomas Breedon's first wife was his own first cousin, Abigail
Gladman (see my s.g.m. postings relating to the Breedon family,
http://tinyurl.com/dwr29 ). As NEHGR 16:50 shows, the New England
inventory of Breedon's brother-in-law Elkanah Gladman's estate shows
"Mr John Gifford" among the debtors.

3. The parish register of Wing, Bucks., shows the baptism, 22 Nov.
1653, of Elkanah Breedon, son of Thomas and Abigail. The following
list shows that Abigail (Gladman) Breedon's father, Rev. Elkanah
Gladman, was the vicar of Wing from at least 1648 (
http://met.open.ac.uk/genuki/big/eng/BK ... icars.html ).

4. Marriages which occurred at Wing, Bucks., include --

TOBE COMES and MARIE THEED, 20 Feb. 1625

WILLIAM THEED and MARIE GLADMAN, 9 Jan. 1665

(thus indicating that the Theeds had family ties to both the Gladmans
and the Coombses).

5. Consulting John Edwin Cussans' _History of Hertfordshire_, vol. 3,
part 1, pp. 154-55 ("Pedigree of the Families of Waterhouse and
Combe"), I notice that there is a "Sir Richard Combe, of the Bury,
Hemel Hempstead, knighted 5 Feb. 1660, bur. 13 April 1676; 'dyed very
poor' (Harl. MS. 5801, fol. 44b. Mus. Brit.)." His first wife was
"Anne, da. and coheir of John Frere, of Stoke, Co. Suffolk; bur. 30
Apr. 1658; 1st wife." (The second wife, "Anne, da. of ... Trowe, of
Co. Oxford," is oddly shown in the pedigree as if she were a sister of
Sir Richard, but with the words "2nd wife" clearly showing). But more
importantly, Sir Richard's parents were "Tobias, bap. 31 July 1586;
buried 12 Feb. 1663" and his wife, "Mary, da. of John Theede, of
Crofton, Co. Bucks." (I believe Robert Wakefield's article in TAG on
the ancestry of John Coombs of Plymouth colony misrepresents her name
as "Weed.")

Gifford secured a judgement of £678.10 against Sir Richard Coombs in
April 1680 (see _Abstract and Index of the Records of the Inferiour
Court of Pleas (Suffolk County Court), Held at Boston, 1680-1698_
[Boston: WPA, 1940], p. 23). Was he aware that Coombs was then dead?
Was the money ever collected?

John Brandon

Re: The probable means of John Gifford's acquaintance with S

Legg inn av John Brandon » 11 jan 2006 15:15:07

Perhaps the 1680 suit was against the younger Richard Coombs ...

http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8& ... vnUjUac_AA

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