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Finding
Weymouth associates: Ludden, Porter, Goodman King
John Gurney's documented Weymouth associates were fellow townsmen - his 1641 gunpowder-fine co-petitioners James Ludden and Richard Porter (Porter a 1635 Weymouth settler) and, persisting to his 1663 estate, the creditor 'Goodman King of Waymouth.'
Date: 1641-1663 (gunpowder co-petition to 1663 estate debt)
Why this conclusion
- Supported by Evidence MBCR 1:331 gunpowder-fine remission (2 June 1641)The 1641 gunpowder record names Ludden and Porter as John's Weymouth co-petitioners (cross-topic).
- Synthesized by Finding Reception into an established Weymouth community, not a shared voyageThe migration-mode conclusion synthesizes the Weymouth associate reading: John's 1641 co-petitioners and his residual creditor were established townsmen, not fellow newcomers.
Related context
- Context from Analysis Grants sat inside an Aylesbury-Vale Bucks neighbour cluster (reception)Extends the associate-network reading: John's land-neighbours, like his 1641 co-petitioners, were established Weymouth men - the reception-into-an-existing-community pattern.
Sources
- New England Historic Genealogical Society. "Suffolk Wills." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 12 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1858), p. 53., vol. 12 (1858), p. 53
- Porter, Joseph W. A Genealogy of the Descendants of Richard Porter, Who Settled at Weymouth, Mass., 1635, and Allied Families: Also, Some Account of the Descendants of John Porter, Who Settled at Hingham, Mass., 1635, and Salem (Danvers) Mass., 1644. Bangor, [Maine], 1878, p. 225., p. 225
Ludden and Gurney were of Weymouth
- Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Probate Records, Case #338, John Gurney Senr probate inventory, Braintree, 16 March 1663; manuscript image supplied by Allen Gurney, file 102840311_00516.jpg., Case #338, 16 March 1663, estate debts
Goodman King of Waymouth
Topic file location: Colonial Weymouth community
Technical details
- Research item:
G13-RI-000022 - Graph revision:
244 - Machine-readable JSON:
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This is one research item from the John Gurney research graph; the fuller narrative treatment is in the linked topic above and the research library.