William Simonds (abt. 1612 - 1672)

Born about 20 Nov 1612 in Winchester, Hampshire, England [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Judith (Phippen) Simonds — married 18 Jan 1643 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 7 Jun 1672 at about age 59 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

William Simonds was probably born in 1611 based on his stated age as a witness in court in four Middlesex County, Massachusetts court cases.^[1] On 28 December 1658, "William Simons aged about 47 yers” testified in the slander case between Edward Johnson plaintiff vs. John Carter defendant;^[2] On 29 December 1658, "William Simons aged about 47: years” testified in a case concerning the laying out of a highway between Concord and Woburn;^[3] on 15 April 1659, "William Simons aged 47 years or there abouts” testified in a case brought against Ralph Reed of Woburn for threatening to shoot someone;^[4] on 2 April 1662, "William Simons aged about 50” testified in a case between William Johnson plaintiff vs. the town of Woburn defendant concerning some land that William Johnson had purchased from Rebecca Trarice.^[5] Based on William's stated ages in these court cases, it is likely that he was born sometime between April and December 1611.

Disputed Origins

The English origins of William Simonds have not been firmly established. In 1891 Abram English Brown proposed in his History of the Town of Bedford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts that William's family came from Winchester, England.^[6] According to Brown, “It is quite probable that William of Woburn was descended from William [Symonds] and Alice [(Robbins) Symonds] of England, to whom there is a memorial in the cathedral church, Winchester, Eng."

In 1908, William R. Cutter repeated the theory connecting William Simonds of Woburn, Massachusetts, to the Symondses of Winchester in his Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts.^[7] In 1984, this theory was again revived by Robert S. and Rollo W. Simonds in their History of the Simonds Family.^[8] Robert and Rollo Simonds believed that William Simonds of Woburn was identical to a William Symonds whose baptism was recorded on 20 November 1612 in the parish registers of the church of St. Peter Chesil, Winchester and that he was a grandson of the William Symonds (d. 1606) who was onetime mayor and alderman of Winchester through his son William who is mentioned in his father's will.^[9] They do not, however, provide any proof that the William Symonds baptized in Winchester in 1612 was the grandson of the mayor, nor anything to link this child to William Simonds of Woburn, Massachusetts.

The Symonds family of Winchester to which Abram English Brown, William R. Cutter and Robert and Rollo Simonds believed that William Simonds of Woburn belonged was certainly an important and wealthy family that can be traced back in Winchester to before 1466 and which was very influential in that city in the 16th and 17th centuries. In addition to having been mayor of Winchester in 1575, 1585 and 1596,^[10] William Symonds (d. 1606) was a wealthy clothier who left a sizable estate at his death of almost £1000 in cash and considerable real estate, part of which was bequeathed to "the Mayor, Bailiffs and Commonality of the city of Winchester...and their successors for ever," the revenues of which were to be used for charitable purposes including for "the relief and maintenance of six poor people of the city as aforesaid forever."^[11] After his death, William Symonds (d. 1606) and his wife Alice were buried in Winchester Cathedral with a plaque over their graves which bears an inscription below a coat of arms.^[12] The father of the mayor, John Symonds (d. 1542), was the city’s bailiff from 1539–1540 and his brother Peter Symonds (c. 1528–1586/7) was a wealthy merchant and mercer in the City of London who founded a famous almshouse in Winchester called Christ’s Hospital to be funded from the rents and profits of his manor and lordship called ingleby in the parish of Chadwell in Essex and all his lands in West-Ham, Essex called Trinity Marsh. Christ's Hospital was to support "four pore boys" who were to be taught and after leaving school to be apprenticed, and part of the rents of the hospital were also to be used to support "two poor scholars, the one in Oxford, the other in Cambridge, that should study to preach God's word."^[13] Money from this charitable foundation was used by its trustees in 1897 to found the Peter Symonds’ School, now Peter Symonds College, one of the largest sixth form colleges in Britain.^[14]

While it is tempting to believe that William Simonds (1611-1672) of Woburn, Massachusetts might have been part of a wealthy family with members who held high office, had a coat of arms and belonged to the landed gentry, there is, in fact, no solid evidence linking him to the Symonds family of Winchester and a number of reasons to doubt that he belonged to this family.^[15] For one, William Simonds of Woburn was almost certainly illiterate since he signed with a mark in a number of court records in Middlesex County, Massachusetts when he was called as a witness in court whereas others from Woburn signed with a signature.^[16] It seems unlikely that William Simonds of Woburn who was apparently uneducated would nevertheless belong to a wealthy family such as the one in Winchester which placed great value upon education and provided for the education of poor students as part of its charitable activities. Moreover, William Simonds of Woburn married Judith Phippen who was the daughter of a baker and almost certainly came to America with her future first husband James Hayward as an indentured servant in the household of the tailor Nicholas Davis.^[17] If William Simonds of Woburn had indeed been the son and grandson of gentlemen, it is hard to imagine that he would have married someone so far below his own social class as Judith (Phippen) Hayward would have been. Three of the sons of William of Woburn (William, Jr., Joseph and James) were carpenters and his son Benjamin was a yeoman farmer. His profile does not fit someone who came from a wealthy family that belonged to the English landed gentry. By way of contrast to William Simonds (1611-1672) of Woburn, MA, Samuel Symonds (1595-1678) of Ipswich, MA was a cursitor in the chancery court in England and a member of the landed gentry entitled to bear a coat of arms who, upon coming to America, held a position in society that one would expect of someone from his social class. He was a representative in the Massachusetts legislature from 1638 until 1643 at which time he was elected one of the magistrates on the Court of Assistants where he remained for thirty years before becoming Deputy Governor of Massachusetts in 1673.^[18]

Immigration and Life in New England

We are on much firmer ground in determining when William Simonds arrived in Massachusetts. Fortunately, he and William Locke submitted a document to the Middlesex County Court in which William Simonds indicated that he had been in the Massachusetts Bay Colony since 1630 (this court case will be discussed below). He might well have been one of the 700 or so passengers who arrived in one of the eleven ships in the Winthrop Fleet. John Winthrop's own ship, the Arabella, arrived in Salem on 12 June 1630 while the other ships in the fleet arrived in the next few weeks. Or perhaps William Simonds came to Massachusetts on one of eight other ships know to have come to New England in 1630. These include the Thomas and William (William Bundick, master) which sailed from Gravesend in Kent in May and arrived on 1 July 1630; the Handmaid which left London on 10 August and arrived with 60 passengers at Plymouth, 29 October 1630; the Gift (aka “French Ship,” Capt. Brooks, master) which arrived at Charlestown, 20 August 1630; the Friendship which arrived “aboute the middle of the sommer in the Bay”; the Swift (Stephen Reeks, master) which sailed from Bristol in April for Saco and Casco Bay, Maine; the Margaret and John (John Edcombe, master) which sailed from Plymouth; the Lyon (William Pierce, master) which sailed from Bristol; and the Mary and John which sailed from Plymouth.

William Simonds was a resident of Charlestown, Massachusetts, in 1639. He had a houselot between widow Rand's and the Cellar.^[1]

"Sarah the wife of w^m Symons buried. 3.(2.) 1641" (3 April 1641), in Concord, Massachusetts.^[19] There were no children recorded from this marriage.

William settled in Woburn about 1644, settling in a place known as Dry Brook.^[20] His house was used as a garrison during the early Indian wars.^[21]

On 18 January 1643 William, at age 30, married Judith Hayward-Phippin, in Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.^[22]

William was on the tax list 8 Sep 1645 at 3s 8p, one of forty-five men, and again 22 Dec 1646. This was a less than the average rate among the other tax payers. But William began acquiring land. 15 Mar 1648 Michael Bacon and William purchased from Roger Shaw 200 acres in Cambridge. He then purchased of Michael Bacon, 31 Dec 1651, two lots containing 18 acres. His purchases were supplemented by grants of land in Woburn: in the pine meadow; three acres of swamp at Rock Meadow, which was schedule to be laid out 2 Feb 1669 ; 25 Feb 1673, 10 acres in the division of Timber; and 23 Sep 1668 sixth division land, in Ladder Pole Swamp. When he was taxed Aug 1671, his rate was £4. 16s. the 16th largest of the Woburn land owners.^[21]

William also held some town offices: 23 Feb 1649 one of 4 surveyors, 1666 chosen to watch "For Swine and Fences", and 1668 surveyor again.^[21]

April 1659, "William Simonds and William Locke of Woburn, being convicted of seditious & contemptuous carriages towards Authority, & of putting in their votes for the choice of Deputy for the General Court, although they were warned to forbear, & also of affronting the Church in their private consultations, this Court doth sentence them to be severely whipt with thirty stripes a piece, or to pay a fine of twenty pounds a piece, and to stand bound with sufficient sureties in 20 £ for their good behavior & appearance at the next Court." They petitioned for clemency in 1660, and the fines were reduced to £15. This has been used to suggest that Simonds and Locke had baptist sympathies.^[23][24]

8 Oct 1662. The Artillery Company of Suffolke, sued Michael Bacon and William Symonds, both of Woburn, in an action of trespass on the land of the artillery. After hearing both sides, the court found for the defendants costs of Court. ^[25]

27 May 1663. William Symons and Thomas Dutton testified regarding Edward Converse (selectman) in a case regarding a letter from the King to be read in each town, but the constable of Woburn, Isaac Cole, refused and a selectman was to have said the letter "to be Popery, &c.^[25]

William Symonds of Woburn became a freeman 11 May 1670. ^[26]

Death

William Simonds died on Tuesday, 7 June 1672 in Woburn, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, according to the town record, ^[27][28][29] or perhaps on the 5th as stated on his probate record.^[30]

Probate

William, of Woburn, died intestate. An inventory was taken 12 June 1672. The inventory contained farm animals, cloths, arms, provisions, a house, barn and farm in Woburn and a farm in Cambridge, all of which was valued at about £485. He had debts about £25.^[30]

18 June 1672. The inventory was presented in court and the widow Judith and sons Caleb and William were appointed administrators. Joseph Simons, aged 19 chose John Wiman Sr as guardian, and Benjamin Simons, aged 18, and James, age 15, chose Francis Kendall as guardian of their estates.^[31]

April 1, 1673. The division of the estate of Wm. Simons Junr was allowed by the court, and a committee appointed to settle the estate of Wm. Simons, Senr.^[32] 16 June 1674, the committee made return.^[33]

Children

Children of William (wife not named) from the Woburn Vital Records: Births^[34]; Deaths:^[35]

1. Sarah b. 28 July 1644
2. Judith b. 3 Mar 1646
3. Mary b. 9 Dec 1647
4. Caleb b. 16 Aug 1649
5. William b. 15 April 1651
6. Joseph b. 18 Oct 1652
7. Benjamin b. 18 Mar 1654
8. Tabitha b. 20 Aug 1655; d. 20 Aug 1655
9. Joshua no birth record. d. 16 July 1657
10. James b. 1 Nov 1658
11. Bethiah b. 9 May 1659
12. Huldah b. 20 Nov 1660
13. Abigail b. c. 1664. There is no birth record for her in Woburn, but she is mentioned by name in a Middlesex County, MA court document dated 14 May 1674 describing the division of her father’s estate by William Johnson, Michael Bacon and Francis Kendall.

yDNA Analyses

William Simonds (1611-1672) of Woburn, MA and all his direct patrilineal descendants should belong to I-FT191165, a newly discovered subclade of haplogroup I1 (I-M253). For an analysis of his yDNA and its relation to that of other early Simonds/Symonds/Simons immigrants to New England and other related families, see Simonds yDNA.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Wyman, Thomas Bellows. The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, 2 vols. (D. Clapp and Son, Boston, 1879) p. 866
2. ↑ Middlesex County Court Records, folio 16. If he was 47 on this date, he was born between Dec. 29, 1610 and Dec. 28, 1611.
3. ↑ Middlesex County Court Records, folio 16. This would put his date of birth sometimes between Dec. 30, 1610 and Dec. 29, 1611.
4. ↑ Middlesex County Court Records, folio 21. This would put his date of birth between April 16, 1611 and April 15, 1612
5. ↑ Middlesex County Court Records, folio 29. This would put his date of birth between April 3, 1611 and April 2, 1612.
6. ↑ Abram English Brown, History of the Town of Bedford, Middlesex County, Massachusetts from Its Earliest Settlement to the Year of Our Lord 1891 (Bedford: Published by the author, 1891), p. 31 of a "Genealogical and Biographical" appendix at the end. This appendix was then republished as Genealogy of Bedford Old Families with Biographical Notes (Bedford: Published by author, 1892).
7. ↑ William R. Cutter, Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1908), Vol. 4, pp. 1574-1575. Cutter states that William Simonds was "according to the history of Peru, Vermont" a descendant of William and Alice Symonds of Winchester. But Cutter must be mistaken since the history of Peru, Vermont, by Ira K. Batchelder contains no such statement. He must have seen this information in Brown's history of Bedford instead.
8. ↑ Robert S. and Rollo W. Simonds, History of the Simonds Family: The Fascinating, Fetching, Fulminous Story of the Simonds family as expounded in the ensuing treatise, collected and composed by the two generations descendants of the 10th and 11th generations Robert and Rollo Simonds, Gentlemen (Barre, Vt.: Northlight Studio Press, 1985): 1-12.
9. ↑ Robert and Rollo Simonds, History of the Simonds Family, p. 11.
10. ↑ For William Symonds on a list of mayors of Winchester, see Guide to Winchester cathedral, the college, St. Cross, &c (Winchester: Warren and Son, 1881), p. 100
11. ↑ His will mentions “messuages, lands, tenements and hereditametns, with their appurtenants situate and being in the parish of Chawton the county of Southampton” which was expected to generate £20 per year. On this charity, see John Deverell, St. John’s Hospital and Other Charities in Winchester (London: Davis & Son, 1879), pp. 17-21
12. ↑ The arms are a a chevron between three trefoils. These arms for this family do no appear in any visitations of the College of Arms although they are similar to the arms of the Symonds family of Great Yeldham, Essex which were "azure, a chevron engrailed between three trefoils slipped or." Other Symonds coats of arms recorded in the College of Arms also had trefoils in them in various configurations.
13. ↑ Liber Scholasticus: Or, An Account of the Fellowships, Scholarships, and Exhibitions at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge (London: C.J.G. & F. Rivington, 1829), pp. 456-458
14. ↑ On the Symonds of Winchester and Peter Symonds in particular, see John Hare, "Symonds, Peter (c. 1528-1586/1587), mercer and benefactor," Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; on the history of Peter Symonds College, see Wikipedia
15. ↑ The claim that he came from the Winchester family is disputed and more than one secondary source notes that his origins are a mystery.
16. ↑ His mark is a small loop. See, for example, in the slander case between Edward Johnson, plaintiff and John Carter, defendant, William Simonds made a mark but Robert Pierce and William Locke both signed with their signatures, Middlesex County Court Records (MCCR), folio 16; or in the case concerning the laying out of the highway between Concord and Woburn, on 29 Dec. 1658, William Simonds and Richard Holden both put a mark but William Johnson, Robert Pierce and William Locke all signed with signatures, MCCR, folio 16; or in another document in the same case, William Simonds and Richard Holden made a mark, but William Johnson and Matthew Johnson both signed with signatures, MCCR, folio 16; or in the case brought against Ralph Reed of Woburn for threatening to shoot someone, on 15 April 1659, William Simonds made a mark but Robert Pierce and Joseph Knight both signed with signatures, MCCR, folio 21; or on 2 April 1662, in a case between William Johnson plaintiff vs. the town of Woburn def. concerning some land that William Johnson had purchased from Rebecca Trarice, William Simonds made a mark but Edward Johnson signed with a signature, MCCR, folio 29.
17. ↑ For the statement that Judith Phippen and James Hayward were indentured servants, see Allison Games, Migration and the Origins of the English Atlantic World (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999), p. 69 and 165.
18. ↑ His father Richard Symonds (d. 1627) married Elizabeth Plume through whom the family received the ancient estate known as the Poole in Great Yeldham, Essex. At his death, Richard Symonds (d. 1627) also owned Olivers, Dudmans and Gunges in Toppesfield, Essex and the manor of Nicholls in Shalford. This Symonds family also had a coat of arms confirmed by letters patent from Sir Richard St. George, Clarenceux King of Arm, 10 January 1625, and appeared in the Visitation of Essex of 1634. There is in the church in Great Yeldham a mural brass tablet in the memory of Richard Symonds with figures of him and his wife and children in prayer and below a shield with his coat of arms. Samuel’s father Richard Symonds was a cursitor of the chancery court (an officer in the Court of Chancery who made original writs), as was Samuel Symonds himself and his brother Edmund Symonds of Black Notley, Essex (d. 1627). Samuel’s brother, Richard Symonds (d. 1680), attended Magdalen College at Cambridge University and studied law at Lincoln’s Inn. On this family, see Thomas Wright, The History and Topography of the County of Essex (London: George Virtue, 1836), vol. 1, pp. 529-532; William Appleton, Ancestry of Priscilla Baker, who Lived 1674-1731, and was Wife of Isaac Appleton, of Ipswich (Cambridge: Press of John Wilson and Son, 1870), pp. 20-102.
19. ↑ Concord (Mass.); Tolman, George. Concord, Massachusetts births, marriages, and deaths, 1635-1850. ([Boston, T.Todd, printer], 1895) p. 3 recorded in Boston.
20. ↑ Sewall, Samuel, The History of Woburn, Middlesex County, Mass., from the Grant of Its Territory to Charlestown, in 1640, to the Year 1860 (Boston: Wiggin & Lunt, 1868) p. 637
21. ↑ ^{21.0 21.1 21.2} Johnson, Edward Francis. Genealogical sketch of William Simonds. (1889) At Hathi Cites the Woburn Town Records.
22. ↑ Woburn (Mass.), Edward F Johnson, and Edward F. (Edward Francis) Johnson. Woburn Records of Births, Deaths, Marriages, And Marriage Intentions, From 1640 to 1900. Vol 3. Marriages. Woburn, Mass.: Andrews, Cutler, & Co., 1891 p. 127
23. ↑ Transcribed court records v. 1 (1649-1663 ) [Middlesex County, Massachusetts] image 100 of 760 p. 175, 176, 177
24. ↑ Rootsweb "William Simonds" Sourced sketch of William.
25. ↑ ^{25.0 25.1} Shurtleff, Nathaniel. Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England (William White, Boston, 1853-) Vol. 4 pt 2 1661-1674. p. 66; 1663 p. 72
26. ↑ Paige, Lucius R. "List of Freeman New England Historical and Genealogical Register vol 3. (1849) p. 141
27. ↑ "A Partial Genealogy of the Simonds Family in the New England Colonies," by S. Dwight Simonds, 1927, p. 7
28. ↑ Johnson, Edward F., Woburn Records of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, from 1640 to 1873. Part II - Deaths (Woburn, Mass. : Andrews, Cutler & Co., Steam Book and Job Printers. 1890) (Free e-book) p. 177
29. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L979-HTTQ?cc=2061550&wc=Q4DC-6TY%3A353350601%2C353784901%2C353785601 : 13 July 2016), Middlesex > Woburn > Births, marriages, deaths 1641-1843 > image 170 of 272; citing Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston.
30. ↑ ^{30.0 30.1} Probate records 1648--1924 (Middlesex County, Massachusetts) v. 4 1672-1677 pp. 154, 155 image 89 of 616
31. ↑ Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-9979-S9RP?cc=2061550&wc=Q4DW-FMS%3A353350601%2C353362601%2C1006229301 : 20 May 2014), Middlesex > County records > County court records 1671-1686 vol 3-4 > image 41 of 351; citing Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston. James p. 32.
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• Pope, Charles Henry. The Pioneers of Massachusetts, A Descriptive List, ... (Boston, Mass.: Charles H Pope, 1900) p. 445 "William Symonds, Concord, his wife Sarah was bur. 3 (2) 1641. Rem. to Woburn. Taxed in 1645. Town officer. He m. Jan. 18, 1643, Judith, widow of James Hayward. He deposed in Dec. 1658, ae. about 47 years." Lists children does not list 8 yr old Abigail. "He d. June 17, 1672. Admin. gr. to widow Judith and sons Caleb and William. The latter died in 1672, and his est. was divided between his ten bros. and sisters and a gr. ch. of widow Judith Simons; Joseph, Benjamin and James S. were minors , and their guardians acted for them. [Mdx. Files.] The widow d. Jan. 3, 1689."
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• Liber Scholasticus: Or, An Account of the Fellowships, Scholarships, and Exhibitions at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. London: C.J.G. & F. Rivington, 1829.
• Middlesex County Court Records were microfilmed from the original records in the Middlesex County Courthouse in Cambridge, Massachusetts and a copy of this microfilm can be borrowed from the Family History Library, Court Records, 1649-1699 [Middlesex County, Massachusetts] (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1972), Original Court Records 1649-1699, FHL US/CAN Film [892251]
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  • Memorial: "Find a Grave", database, Find A Grave: Memorial #75837180 (accessed 29 January 2024), Memorial page for William Simonds (1611-7 Jun 1672); Maintained by Laurence Overmire (contributor 46950879). No source citations; no gravestone. Burial location unknown.

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