Generation 1

JOHN SQUIRE (abt 1630 - 1713) of Cambridge

Parents: Unknown

John Squire was born about 1630. He died in 1713, age 83. [Ref] He married Sarah Francis by 1667. [Ref]

In 1662 there was a Cambridge court case "John Squire vs Richard Linered Slande". [Ref] In a 1667 court case, his age was given as 30. [Ref]

John Squire was a soldier in King Philip's War on 25 Jan 1675/6. [Ref] He received eight acres in the eighth quadrant in Cambridge in 1683. [Ref] He was a freeman at "Ch" (Chelmsford?) on 16 Feb 1685/6, he is also on a dateless list of freemen of Cambridge. [Ref] He was on an Aug 1688 list of people taxed in Cambridge. [Ref] John Squire, Sr. was on a committee to view lands in Cambridge in 1696. [Ref]

He signed his will in 1713 in Cambridge. [Ref]

John appears to be distinct from the John who was in Boston at the same time and, who Savage [Ref] says, went to Reading.

Children of John and Sarah

1. John Squire may have been the John Squire who married Rebecca Unknown and had a daughter in Cambridge on 11 Mar 1700/1. [Ref]
2. Thomas Squire was born on 25 Jul 1672 in Cambridge. [Ref]
3. Sarah Squire was born on 23 May 1677 in Cambridge. [Ref]
4. Jonathan Squire was born on 24 Jul 1679 in Cambridge. [Ref]
5. Mary Squire was born on 18 Oct 1681 in Cambridge. [Ref] She married John Hascall on 2 Mar 1698/9 in Cambridge. [Ref]
6. Richard Squire was born on 2 Nov 1683 in Cambridge [Ref]
7. Daniel Squire was born on 3 Aug 1686 in Cambridge. He married Deliverance Wilson.
8. Deborah Squire married William Brown on 11 Nov 1703 in Cambridge. [Ref]

Generation 2

DANIEL SQUIRE (b. 1686) of Cambridge and Norwich

Parents: John Squire and Sarah Francis

Daniel Squire was born on 3 Aug 1686 in Cambridge. [Ref] He married Deliverance Wilson on 5 Jul 1710 in Watertown [Ref] or in Newton. [Ref]

Daniel Squire and Deliverance Wilson had the following children:

1. Abigail Squire was baptised on 6 May 1711 in the First Congregational Church in Cambridge. [Ref]
2. Deliverance Squire was born on 13 Dec 1715 in Cambridge. She was baptised on 8 Jan 1715/6 in Cambridge. She died on 31 Oct 1782 in Pomfret, Windham, CT. She married Capt. Joseph Kingsbury 3.
3. Mary Squire was baptised on 17 Jan 1713/4 in the First Congregational Church in Cambridge. [Ref]
4. Daniel Squire was born on 26 Jul 1718 in Cambridge. [Ref] Daniel Squire died on 26 Mar 1783, in his 66th year, and is buried in the Franklin Planes Cemetery in Franklin, New London, CT. [Ref]
5. John Squire was born on 3 Mar 1720/1 in Cambridge. [Ref]
6. Abiel Squire was born on 17 Apr 1726 in Norwich. [Ref] He married Rebecca Lothrop of Norwich on 8 Jun 1752. [Ref]

Generation 3

DELIVERANCE SQUIRE (1715 - 1782)

Parents: Daniel Squire and Deliverance Wilson

Deliverance Squire was born on 13 Dec 1715 in Cambridge. [Ref] She was baptised on 8 Jan 1715/6 in the First Congregational Church in Cambridge. [Ref] She died on 31 Oct 1782 in Pomfret, Windham, CT. [Ref][Ref] She is buried in the Sabine Cemetery in Pomfret; her headstone says that she died on 3 Oct and that she was 66 years old. [Ref] She married Capt. Joseph Kingsbury 3 on 28 Mar 1738 in the First Church of Norwich. [Ref][Ref says at West Farms] Click here to see a photo of her grave on the Findagrave website.

References

Cemeteries

Barbour, Lucius Barnes, "Genealogical Data from Connecticut Cemeteries," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 86, 1932, 372-390.

Windham County Cemeteries, Windham County, US GenWeb project.

Encyclopedias

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.

Family Genealogies

Kingsbury, Frederick John, The Genealogy of the Descendants of Henry Kingsbury of Ipswich and Haverhill, Mass., Hartford, Hartford Press, Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1905.

Local Histories

Paige, Lucius R., History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Boston, H.O. Houghton, c. 1877.

Public Records

No author, Proprieters' Record of the Town of Cambridge, John Wilson & Son, Cambrige, 1896.

Vital Records

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

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

Vital Records of Norwich, CT 1659 - 1848

White, Lorraine Cook, ed., The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol. 1-55, Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002.