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- Francis Willoughby, merchant, lived both in England and New England. He returned to England in 1640, where he married his second wife, Susan Taylor. He returned again in 1651 and remained until 1662, serving as Commissioner of the Navy at Portsmouth for eight years; he wed his third wife, Margaret, circa 1659. Francis, Deputy-Governor of Massachusetts, was admitted an inhabitant of Charleston August 22, 1638."
There is discrepency over the name of his first wife and the names of the children born of this first marriage. His third wife apparently was Margaret Locke and the third child of this marriage, Susannah, was born in MA in 1664. He was a shipwright in Wappingwall, England in 1635 and must have immigrated to MA about 1640. He "bound himself to pay 400 pounds to Thomas Bragne, his brother-in-law, and William Webb of London, in trust as a provision for his third wife, Margaret (Locke) Willoughby. He became a Commisioner of the Royal Navy, a selectman, deputy, magistrate 1650-1654 and then Deputy Governor of Massachusetts 1665-67 and 1668-70.
A book called "The Dayly Observation of an Impassioned Puritan"; a seventeenth century shorthand diary is attributed to Deputy Governor Francis Willoughby of Massachusetts by Francis Sypher in 1981.
It has 17 pages.
From Family Histories and Genealogies by Salisbury, 1892
"Francis Willoughby was admitted an inhabitant of the town of Charlestown, in New England, August 22, 1638. According to the town records his property at the time consisted of one parcel of ground, with a house upon it situated to the south of the Mill Hill, facing north upon Elbow or Crooked Lane (afterwards Bow Street), with the Charles River to the south, another lane on the east, and the garden-plots of Tho. Brigden and Ab. Pratt on the west. Beyond these latter was the land of Ed. Johnson, the western boundary of which was Hayles Lane. He had also commons for one milch-cow, bought of Peter Garland; two lots of arable land, of two and four acres, along the south side of Mystick River; five acres of woodland in Mystick Field, and some twenty acres of land in Waterfield. The next year he bought of Sarah widow of Tho. Ewer a house and garden-plot, in the Middle Tow, with the Market Place (or Square) to the south and west; Dock Lane (or Water Lane) to the south-east and land of Increase Nowell to north-east. In 1640 some 'remote land' as it was styled, was set off from Charlestown and known as Charlestown Village, to be incorporated in 1642 under the name of Woburn. Some 3000 acres of this tract, called the 'land of Nod,' afterwards part of Wilmington, had been granted at an early period to different individuals, Francis Willoughby, having 300 acres, which he subsequently increased by purchase of 1150 acres more, which had been granted to Capt. Naler and Capt. John Allen.
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1613 - 1671 (58 years)
