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Serena--John Biggs was one of the first 100 Freemen settlers (Puritans) in Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630.PRE-1634
Freemen were the only ones in the colony to vote for government leaders and help set policy.
Pilgrims & Puritans both were dissenters to the Church of England (Anglican Church). Pilgrims wanted to separate from it and begin a new church. Puritans wanted to cleanse and purify it inside out. Both groups had political enemies in England. They came to America for religious freedom.
PLANTERS OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY
No original complete lists survive which name the passengers of the ships sent to America by the Massachusetts Bay Company from 1628 to 1630. Immediately below are lists of the surnames of first settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Commonwealth as proposed by worthy researchers of the last two centuries. Scarcely half of these brave settlers survived to raise families. The married couples who survived often saw half their children die in infancy. We remember all these courageous persons, who were motivated by their Christian faith in a time of religious persecution to venture their lives to make a new society for us in the wilderness. We owe them our very existence as a Nation, and the core of our Constitution, and we should never forget their principles and purpose.
At the bottom of this page are alphabetically arranged links to vital data of the first settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Commonwealth who are known to have had children. Their descendants are warmly invited to apply for membership in The Winthrop Society, and to participate in our historical and genealogical research. In some cases, the settler is specially treated by still another hereditary society, focused upon that settler's descendants or those bearing the surname. You will find links to these societies under the settler's listing. These societies are independent entities, not formally related to or monitored by The Winthrop Society.
PRE-1634 PLANTERS OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY
No original complete lists survive which name the passengers of the ships sent to America by the Massachusetts Bay Company from 1628 to 1630. Immediately below are lists of the surnames of first settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Commonwealth as proposed by worthy researchers of the last two centuries. Scarcely half of these brave settlers survived to raise families. The married couples who survived often saw half their children die in infancy. We remember all these courageous persons, who were motivated by their Christian faith in a time of religious persecution to venture their lives to make a new society for us in the wilderness. We owe them our very existence as a Nation, and the core of our Constitution, and we should never forget their principles and purpose.
The Oath of a Freeman, or of a Man to be made free.
I, A B, etc., being, by the Almighty's most wise disposition, become a member of this body, consisting of the Governor, Deputy Governor, Assistants and a commonalty of the Mattachusets in New England, do freely and sincerely acknowledge that I am justly and lawfully subject to the government of the same, and do accordingly submit my person and estate to be protected, ordered, and governed by the laws and constitutions thereof, and do faithfully promise to be from time to time obedient and conformable thereunto, and to the authority of the said Governor and Assistants and their successors, and to all such laws, orders, sentences, and decrees as shall be lawfully made and published by them or their successors; and I will always endeavor (as in duty I am bound) to advance the peace and welfare of this body or commonwealth to my utmost skill and ability; and I will, to my best power and means, seek to divert and prevent whatsoever may tend to the ruin or damage thereof, or of any the said Governor, Deputy Governor, or Assistants, or any of them or their successors, and will give speedy notice to them, or some of them, of any sedition, violence, treachery, or other hurt or evil which I shall know, hear, or vehemently suspect to be plotted or intended against the said commonwealth, or the said government established; and I will not at any time suffer or give consent to any counsel or attempt that shall be done, given, or attempted for the impeachment of the said government, or making any change alteration of the same, contrary to the laws and ordinances thereof, but shall do my utmost endeavor to discover, oppose, and hinder all and every such counsel and attempt. So help me God.
Such as took the Oath of Freeman on March 4, 1633/34
Thomas Grubb
Edmond Hubbert
Edward Hutchingson
Mr. Thomas Leaveritt
Mr. Gyles Ferman
Edmond Quinsey
William Collishawe
Thomas Minor
Thomas Howlett
John Gage
Samuell Wilboare
John Levens
John Cranwell
Edward Mellowes
James Browne
Mr. John Woolridge
Josuah Hewes
Robert Turner
John Biggs
Thomas Matson
Walter Merry
Richard Tappin
Mr. Atterton Hough
William Andrews
Richard Walker
George Ruggles
Mr. Nicholas Parker
PURITAN SETTLERS
IN THE
MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY
By
CAROL CLARK JOHNSON
(Member of the National Society of the Daughters of the American
Revolution; Daughters of the American Colonists; The New England Historic
Genealogical Society; and The Connecticut Society of Genealogists.)
Privately Printed 1970
The names of only a few of the earliest settlers of Agawam have been
preserved. The earliest known English planter was William Jeffrey, and he
must have been at Agawam before 1623 but subsequently settled at
Weymouth. September 7, 1630, the Court of Assistants in Boston ordered
the squatter settlers at Agawam to leave, but not until March 1633 did the
Court act to establish a colony there, and then only to prevent the settlement
of a French Catholic colony. The wise and gifted young John Winthrop, son of
the governor, was chosen to lead the expedition of twelve men of whom only
nine names have been preserved: Mr. Clerk (Clark), Robert Coles, Thomas
Howlett, John Biggs, John Gage, Thomas Hardy, William Perkins, Mr.
Thorndike, and Will Sergeant.
This Agawam was referred to as Ipswic
Hope this helps a little!
Keevin Biggs
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