The WICOM Family of Rowley

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First Generation

RICHARD WICOM of Rowley

Richard Wicom married Ann Unknown. She was buried on 25 Aug 1674 in Rowley. [Ref 5;441]

Children of Richard Wicom and Ann Unknown:

1. Daniel Wicom (conjectured son) was born in 1635 in England. He died on 13 Apr 1700, at age 65, in Rowley. He married first Mary Smith. He married second Lydia (Bailey) Platts.
2. John Wicom (conjectured son) married Abigail Kimble on 14 May 1673 in Rowley. [Ref]
   some descendants of John Wicom

Second Generation

CAPT. DANIEL WICOM (1635 - 1700) of Rowley

Parents: Richard Wicom and Ann Unknown?

Daniel Wicom was born in 1635 in England. [Ref] He died on 13 Apr 1700, at age 65, in Rowley. [Ref] He is buried in the Old Cemetery in Rowley. [Ref] He married first Mary Smith, the daughter of Hugh Smith, on 14 or 24 Oct 1658 in Rowley. [Ref] Mary was born in 1642. [Ref] She died on 29 Jan 1690/1 in Rowley. [Ref] He married second Lydia Platts on 11 Nov 1691 in Rowley. [Ref] Lydia was Lydia (Bailey) Platts, the widow of Abel Platts. [Ref] She died on 24 Nov 1722, aged 80, and is buried in the Old Cemetery in Rowley. [Ref]

Daniel was a carpenter and a farmer. [Ref]

Daniel was fined at the 19 Nov 1657 court in Ipswich. [Ref 2;55] He was fined at the 24 Nov 1659 court in Ipswich for "entertaining mens' sons and servants at an unseasonable time in the night and for excessive drinking". [Ref 2;180]

Daniel was chosen selectman on 19 Jan 1676. [Ref 6;270] He was chosen an attorney for Rowley in the town's action against William Longfellow in Apr 1679. [Ref 7;213] He was a representative from Rowley in 1699. [Ref]

Daniel's gravestone is number 300, row 4, east 2. The inscription reads: "Here Lyeth Buried ye body of Capt Daniel Wicom aged 65 years decd April ye 15 1700." [Ref]

Children of Daniel Wicom and Mary Smith:

1. Daniel Wicom married Sarah Hazen.
2. Hannah Wicom died on 24 Feb 1689 in Rowley. [Ref]
3. Sarah Wicom was born on 27 Dec 1661 in Rowley. [Ref]
4. Mary Wicom was born on 11 Nov 1667 in Rowley. [Ref] She married Jonathan Jewitt on 24 Jan 1699/1700 in Rowley. [Ref]
5. Thomas Wicom was baptised on 14 Jul 1672 in Rowley. [Ref]
6. Frances Wicom was born on 29 Mar 1675 in Rowley. [Ref] She married Samuel Johnson on 31 May 1694 in Rowley. [Ref]
   Frances testisfied against Margaret Scott, who was on trial for witchcraft, on 15 Sep 1692. Margaret was executed on 22 Sep 1692. "The deposistion of frances wycum who testifyeth and saith that quickly after the first court at [Salem] about wicthcraft margerit Scott whom I very well knew: or hir Apperance came to me and did most greviously torment me by choaking and almost presing me to death: and so she did continue affleting me by times tell the 5'th August 1692 being the day of hir examination allso during the time of hir examination margerit scott did most greviously afflect me: and also severall times sence: and I beleve in my heart that margerit Scott is a wicth and that she has often afflected me by acts of wicthcraft." [Ref 2;45]
   
7. Rebecca Wicom was born on 7 Dec 1677 in Rowley. [Ref]
8. Martha Wicom was born on 6 Mar 1679 in Rowley. [Ref] She married Daniel Hardy of Bradford on 15 Jan 1701/2 in Rowley. [Ref] Capt. Daniel Hardy was the son of Thomas Hardy and Mercy Tenney.

Third Generation

DANIEL WICOM (m. 1690) of Rowley

Parents: Capt. Daniel Wicom and Mary Smith

Daniel Wicom of Rowley married Sarah Hazen on 27 Jun 1690. [Ref][Ref]

Children of Daniel Wicom and Sarah Hazen:

1. Mary Wicom was born on 4 Jun 1691 in Rowley. [Ref]
2. Sarah Wicom was born on 27 Jul 1694 in Rowley. She died on 8 Oct 1750. She married James Barker.
3. Mary Wicom was born on 15 Jan 1696 in Rowley. [Ref] She married James Jarvis of Newbury on 3 Jul 1719 in Rowley. [Ref]
4. Hannah Wicom was baptised on 12 Mar 1699 in Rowley. [Ref] She marrried Jonathan Crosby of Oyster River on 5 Aug 1718 in Rowley. [Ref]

Fourth Generation

SARAH WICOM (1694 - 1750)

Parents: Daniel Wicom and Sarah Hazen

Sarah Wicom was born on 27 Jul 1694 in Rowley. [Ref] She died on 8 Oct 1750. [Ref] She married James Barker on 7 May 1711 in Rowley. [Ref][Ref]

References

Blodgette, George B., Inscriptions from the Old Cemetery in Rowley, Massachusetts, Salem, MA, The Salem Press Publishing and Printing Co., 1893.

Dow, George Francis, Records and Files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Essex Institute, 1911.

Hazen, Henry Allen, "The Hazen Family: Four American generations," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 33, 1879, 229- 236.

Massachusetts Vital Records to 1850. Online Database: NewEnglandAncestors.org, New England Historical and Genealogical Society, 2001-2007.

No author, "Descendants of James Barker of Rowley," Essex Antiquarian 6, 1902, 101.

The Salem witchcraft papers, Verbatim transcipts of the legal documents of the Salem witchcraft outbreak of 1692. Edited and with an introduction and index by Paul Boyer and Stephen Nissenbaum. Online: Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.

Savage, James, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, Vol. I-IV, Boston, 1860-1862.

Schultz, John A., Legislators of the Massachusetts General Court 1691–1780: A biographical dictionary, Boston, Northeastern University Press, 1997. Online: New EnglandAncestors.org.

Torrey’s New England Marriages Prior to 1700. (Online database. NewEnglandAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.)

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