John Norman, Sr.


< John Norman, Jr.
birt: 4 MAR 1637
plac: Salem, Mass
deat: 6 MAY 1713
plac: Salem, Mass
marr: 17 NOV 1663
plac: Salem, Mass

  
 Richard (Fryeth) Norman, Sr. 
 birt: 1580
plac: Dorchester/Somerset, England
deat: 22 APR 1653
plac: Marblehead, Mass
marr: BET. 1605 - 1615
plac: Dorchester/Somerset, England
 John Norman, Sr. 
birt: 1612
plac: Somerset, ENG
deat: 1673
plac: Manchester, MASS


Arabella Unk
marr:
 
 Margaret Alford 
birt: BET. 1585 - 1595
plac: Dorchester/Somerset/Edworth ENG
marr: BET. 1605 - 1615
plac: Dorchester/Somerset, England

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Notes:

John Norman passed his youth in the Cape Ann and Naumkeag settlements. He was known as "Goodman Norman". He married Arabella ____ who was admitted to the Salem church in 1637. John was a carpenter and shipwright. He shared in the first grants to Salem settlers and his first home was in the North Field on land granted to him in1636, and on which he immediately built a house. He later moved to Jeffrey's Creek. In 1647 he was made a commoner in Marblehead and in 1650 he was settled at Manchester where he petitioned the court to open a house of entertainment to sell wine and beer and provide provisions and accommodations for men and horses. He was Manchester's constable in 1652, 1663 and served on Grand Jury in 1661, 1671, and 1672. He seems to have been of a somewhat combative disposition, being several times summoned to court for engaging in physical conflict with his neighbors, and on one of these occasions a battle royal seems to have taken place, John Norman, his son John and a servant being engaged on one side, and John Pickworth and his three sons on the other. (Records and Files, etc., I:323, II:107;225.) His wife Arabella was also in court in 1657 for striking the wife of Nicholas Vinson, and it is amusing to find her appearing as a witness against John Elletrap, who was tried for "profane swearing" in 1667, and testifying that the miserable defendant had said "plague take it." (Records and Files, etc., III:46) -- From "The Ancestry of Sarah Stone", pp 47-48.

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