Robert Andrews b. Bef. 14 Nov 1609 Boxford, Berkshire, England d. 29 May 1668 Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America: Oswald Family History

1609 - 1668 (58 years)

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Name	Robert Andrews
Birth	Bef. 14 Nov 1609	Boxford, Berkshire, England
Christening	14 Nov 1609	Boxford, Berkshire, England
Gender	Male
Burial	1668	Pine Grove Cemetery, Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America
Death	29 May 1668	Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America
Person ID	I312684222547	Oswald Genealogy
Last Modified	15 Jun 2025

Family Mrs Elizabeth Grace Melburn, b. Apr 1617, Berkshire, England d. 25 Dec 1702, Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America (Age 85 years)

Children

	1. Mary Andrews, b. 15 Apr 1638, Boxford, Berkshire, England d. 12 Oct 1712, Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America (Age 74 years) [Father: unknown] [Mother: unknown]
	2. Hannah Andrews, b. Abt. 1642, Boxford, Berkshire, England d. 24 Dec 1702, Malden, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America (Age 60 years) [Father: unknown] [Mother: unknown]
	3. Elizabeth Andrews, b. Abt. 1643, Boxford, Berkshire, England d. Boxford, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America [Father: unknown] [Mother: unknown]
	4. Thomas Andrews, b. 1645, Boxford, Berkshire, England d. Bef. Jun 1718, Boxford, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America (Age 73 years) [Mother: unknown]
	5. Rebecca Andrews, b. 1647, Boxford, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America d. Andover, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America [Father: unknown] [Mother: unknown]
	6. John Andrews, b. Abt. 1648, Boxford, Berkshire, England d. 1731, Boxford, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America (Age 83 years) [Father: unknown] [Mother: unknown]
	7. Robert Andrews, b. 1651, Boxford, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom d. 19 Dec 1675, Narragansett Fort, Rhode Island, British Colonial America (Age 24 years) [Mother: unknown]
	8. Cap Joseph Andrews, b. 18 Sep 1657, Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America d. 28 Jul 1732, Danvers, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America (Age 74 years) [Mother: unknown]
	9. Mrs. Sarah Andrews, b. 18 Sep 1658, Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America d. 27 Sep 1714, Boxford, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America (Age 56 years) [Mother: unknown]
	10. Ruth Andrews, b. 27 May 1664, Topsfield, Essex, Massachusetts d. Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA [Mother: unknown]

Family ID F2376 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 15 Jun 2025

Notes

Plymouth Colony - My 1st cousin thirteen times removed
Plymouth Colony - My 1st cousin thirteen times removed

ch. known
ch. known

!History of Roxford 1645-1880 by Perley.
!History of Roxford 1645-1880 by Perley. Mass B 22a; Essex Antiquarian vol 3 p.114. !New England Marriages prior to 1700 Clarance Allen Torrey, pub 1985 by Gen Pub Co, Baltimore

Archive record. American Pub. C.V. 67,
Archive record. American Pub. C.V. 67, p. 511. Boston Transcript Vol. 33 p.2. Probate record Mass. E18 Vol.2. IGI, May 2001.

Marriage record says that he was married in colonies not England

1. Ancestral File.
1. Ancestral File.

!SOURCE: IGI and AF
!SOURCE: IGI and AF

Am. Pub. C.V.67 Pg 511 Boston Transcript
Am. Pub. C.V.67 Pg 511 Boston Transcript Vol 33 Pg. 2 Mass. B.22 b. A 4B 26 Probate Rec. Mass. E18 Vol 2 Mass. Sl A Vol. 3 Mass. 740 Vol 1 Essex Autiquarian The Andrews Family Family Rep. Rebecca Stout 3348 So. West Temple Salt Lake City, Utah

Person note

Said to have been born in Boxford, England but I find this very weak. Robert Andrews chr. in Boxford, Berks 1609 seems to be a fabrication. The date doesn't exist in the records. It may exist in England but not on film at the FHL. No Andrews were found in the early to mid 1600s. I only found one Andrews will (Bryant Lake alias Andrews) at the correct time to help but it didn't relate to Robert Andrews.

ESTATE OF ROBERT ANDREWS OF ROWLEY VILLAGE,
(Boxford).
"In the name of god amen Know all Christian people this may or shall concearne yt I Robart Andrews of Rowley village in the County of Esex being verey sick & weack of body but blesed he god in prfect cence & memorey doe mack this my last will & testiment reuocking all other former wills wtsoeuer Impr I bequeath my soule to Allmighty god yt gaue it me in whome I trust through the merits of Jesus Christ to be receaiued into Eternall happiness foreuer and my body to ye earth from whence it came to be deciently burned in ye burring place of Topsfeeld according as my wife and Children shall see meet It I glue & bequeath vnto my eldest sonn Thomas Andrews the house yt I now Lille in and ninecore Ackers of Land being upland & Medow & yt Land yt I bought of Zacheus Gould only my well beloued wife is to haue duering her life time the Kiching and hall & Kiching Chamber & halfe the seller & the new feeld & the eight Acker peeice & halfe the orchard & if ther be not Land enufe for her to manner then my sd sonn with ye help of my son Robart is to breack her vp three Ackers more or let her haue three Ackers yt is allready broacken vp and the same to inioy duering her life without the Lett hinderanc or molestation of my sd sonn or aney other prson vnder him and my sonn Thomas is to shingle the house and at my wiues deceas the said land orchard and rooms is to retur-ne to my son Thomas & his haires foreuer my said sonn Paying vnto my three youngest daughters Rebeckah Sarah & Ruth twenty pound pr each when she shall be twenty yeares of Age and if eaither of them shall die before 34 time then yt prt shall be equaly devided between the other two and allso he is to pay vnto my Daughter Mary the wife of Isack Comins flue pounds three years after my deceas & for the new whip saw and all other Carpenters tools shall be for the vse of my wife sonn Thomas & Robart
"It I giue and bequeath vnto vnto my sonn Robart Andrews eightcore Ackers of Land from Piebroock to ye clay pits and ye fatti medow and the fishing broock medow & becaus my sonn Thomas & Robart should not wrong one another in wood I desier ther Land may be ped by them selues & two other honest men and Robart is to pay vnto my Daughter Elizebeth the wife of Samuell Symons flue pounds three years aftter my deceas and to my Daughte Hanah Pebody flue pounds fouer years aftter my deceas It I giue vnto my sonn John the Lot comonly called the seller Lott and the Medow belonging vnto it but the medow shall be for the vse of my wife & Thomas vntell my sonn John shall be one and twenty years of Age and then to returne to him without aney further truble he paying to my seauen Grandchildren twenty shillings pr each when the shall come to the age of fourteen years It I giue vnto my sonn Joseph yt Land in Topsfeeld yt I bought of John Wilds Senr with all the preuiledgs therunto belonging It I giue vnto my well beloued wife all my Cattell & other moueable goods and the Do-ung that is now in ye yard & halfe the barne & Lintos and my sonn Thomas the other halfe and he and his brother Robart is to set vp the other Lintoos & to Lay in for the vse of ther mother eauery year duering her Life twelue Loads of hay and if eaither of my sonns should die before they are married then yt Land yt is giuen to them to be equally deuided amongst the Suruiuers Leaueing my said wife hole Exsectetrix and in testimony hearof I haue hearvnto Set my hand and Seale this Sixteenth day of May in the yeare of our Lord one thousand Six hundred Sixty & eight."
Robart (his / mark) Andrews, Senr (SEAL) Witness: Robert (his U mark) Smith, James Hanscombe. Proved in Salem court 2: 5 in: 1668 by the witnesses. Es-
sex County Probate Files, Docket 709.

Inventory of the estate of Robart Andrews, Sr., of Rowley, taken by Frances Pabody, Isack Comings and Edman (his 0 mark) Towne: Three beds & beding, 17li; two dusen & three napkins, 2li.; sheets, table Cloaths & pillow beres, 8li.; mares and colts, 16li.; fouer Cowes, 16li.; fouer young Cattell, 7li.; fouer steares, 18li.; Cart and wheeles, 2li.; Grinding stone, 6s.; yoacks, Chaines & plows, 3li. 15s.; Harrow, beetell, wedges, sives & sickells, 2li.; sheepe, Lambs & one Caulie, 2li. 10s.; twenti ackers of Come upon the ground, 25li.; his wearing Cloaths, 8li.; worcking tooles, 3li. 5s.; Chests, boxes & one trunck, 1li. 10s.; two musckets, & rest, 2li. 10s.; Chairs, tubs & trays, 2li. 10s.; one peice of new Cloath, 1li. 4s.; one parsell of Land bought of John Wilds, 45li.; the housen & two hundered ackers of Land upland & medow, 350li.; Eighteene ackers of upland & medow, 100li.; one parcell of Land more Lieing in topsfeeld, 60li.; eighteene bushells of wheat, seaven bushells of rye, 5li. 18s.; twelve bushells of malt, 1li. 16s.; thirty bushells of Indian come, 4li.; pewter, bras and Iron pots, 5li.; two tables, 3li. 1s. debts due to the estate, 5li.; Rugg, 10li.; the estate debtor, 23li.
Attested 1: 5m: 1668 by Grace Andrewes wife of the deceased. Essex County Quarterly Court Files, vol. 13, leaf 67.

A Porter pedigree; being an account of the ancestry and descendants of Samuel and Martha (Perley) Porter of Chester, N.H., who were descendants of John Porter, of Salem, Mass., and of Allan Perley, of Ipswich, Mass online.
The Andrews Family.

(Andreas, Andrewes, Andros, Andrus, Adduse.)

Several persons bearing this name eariy settled in New
England, among them being Daniel Andrew of Salem, who
married one of John^ Porter's daughters; John Andrews of
Ipswich; Nicholas i\jidrews of Rowley; and Robert Andrews,
also of Rowley.

A genealogy of this family has been published in the Essex
Antiquarian, Vol. III.

228.

ROBERT ^ANDREWS,

Bom in England; died in Rowley Village, 29 May 1G68.
Married GRACE . r- ., who came from England with him;
died 4 Jan. 1702. Both are buried in Topsficld.

Robert Andrews lived in what is now Boxford, but so near
the Topsfield line, that he was always identified with the Topsfield
people. 1661, he bought 200 acres of land on the west side of
Pye Brook, and on it, built his first house, which was destioyed.
He built a second one -which he bequeathed to his eldest son. He
also bought land on Fish Brook, and in Rowley Village, and in
Topsfield. He was a farmer and carpenter.

His will is much defaced by time, and is preserved between
sheets of silk tissue. In it he e;ives his eldest son, Thomas, the
homestead and the land bought from Zaccheus Gould; son Robert,
eight score acres of land:' John, the Seller Lott; Joseph, the land
in Topsfield, bought of John Wild's son; and he mentions his daugh-
ters Mary, "wife of Isaac Cummings; Elizabeth, wife of Samuel
Symonds; Hannah, wife of John Peabody; and his unmarried
daughters, Rebekah, Sarah and Ruth.

Passenger Lists 1600-1700: Found Elizabe
Passenger Lists 1600-1700: Found Elizabeth Andrews p 60; Jane Andrews p 60 and Samuel Andrews p 60. Borthers and Sisters?

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