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| John OTIS
(1581-1657) |
John OTIS 1 2 3 4
Noted events in his life were: • Immigration: Came to Plymouth Colony around 1630. • Research Notes: Otis Family in America by William A. Otis. 1 "It is not known with certainty when John landed in America, or in whose company he came, but most probably the date was the latter part of 1630. He was evidently a substantial yoeman, who, with the other Puritans of the time, left his home to escape the religious persecution of the times, coming to Plymouth Colony (now Massachusetts), and willingly submitted to the hardships of a pioneer for such freedom. One of the most interesting land grants was that of June 1, 1636 for ten acres for planting ground on a hill, which John named Weary-All-Hill in remembrance of the hill in his Gastonbury home where Joseph of Arimathea stuck his staff - a thorn branch - into the earth, and it burst into bloom; the first of all the famous thorns to blossom thereafter at Christmas time." John married Margaret OTIS (MAIDEN UNKNOWN) in 1603 in England. (Margaret OTIS (MAIDEN UNKNOWN) died on 28 Apr 1653 in Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts.) John next married Elizabeth STREAME (MAIDEN UNKNOWN). (Elizabeth STREAME (MAIDEN UNKNOWN) died in 1676.) |
1 William A. Otis, Fellow American Institute of Architects, A Genealogical and Historical Memoir of the Otis Family in America, Compiled and Arranged from Various Sources (Chicago, 1924).
2 William Richard Cutter, A.M., Historian of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society; Librarian Emeritus of Woburn Public Library; Author of "The Cutter Family,""History of Arlington," "Bibliography of Woburn," etc., etc, Genealogical and Family History of Northern New York, A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation,Volume I (New York, Lewis Historical Publishing Company,1910).
3 Maria Whitman Bryant daughter of Elizabeth Winslow and Judge Kilborn Whitman of Pembroke, Massachusetts, Genealogy of Edward Winslow of The Mayflower and His Descendants from 1620 to 1865 (Copyright 1915 by Herbert Pelham Bryant, E. Anthony & Sons, Inc., Printers, New Bedford, Massachusetts, U.S.A.)
4 Hermon Alfred Kelley, A Genealogical History of the Kelley Family Descended From Joseph Kelley of Norwich, Connecticut (Privately Printed at Cleveland, Ohio, 1897).