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Evidence
Ballou - John among Braintree men allotted at Mendon, 1662
Adin Ballou's History of Milford places John Gurney among the Braintree men accepted to allotments at the new Mendon (Nipmug) plantation in 1662.
Date: 1662
Why this conclusion
- Synthesized by Analysis Analysis: proprietary right, not residence (the 1659-1663 frontier pattern)The Mendon allotment is the second leg of the frontier-rights pattern.
Qualifications and conflicts
- Qualified by Open question Open: Mendon post-1667 record vs John's 1662/3 death (right carried forward vs retrospective)The 1667 incorporation versus the 1662/3 death qualifies how John's name in the Mendon proprietors' record should be read - a right carried forward or retrospective, not proof of settlement.
Related context
- Context from Finding Two Gurney lot-holders at post-1667 Mendon: the son and the widowDistinguishes the post-1667 son's and widow's Mendon proprietary lots from John Sr.'s own pre-incorporation 1662 Mendon allotment.
Sources
- Ballou, Adin. History of the Town of Milford, Worcester County, Massachusetts, from Its First Settlement to 1881. In Two Parts. Part I. Strictly Historical; Part II. Biographico-Genealogical Register. Boston: Franklin Press, Rand, Avery, & Co., 1882., History of the Town of Milford (1882), pp. 27-35
Appears in
- John Gurney fact sheet — Land highlight: 'frontier allotments at Billerica and Mendon'; body: 'a frontier interest among the proprietors of Mendon.'
Also covered here
Technical details
- Evidence marker:
G13-PM-000011 - Primary research item:
G13-RI-000026 - Graph revision:
244 - Machine-readable JSON:
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