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This page expands an Evidence link in Colonial Weymouth community: the findings, sources, and qualifications behind the marked passage.
Negative result
Absent from Weymouth's 1636 Fresh Pond great-lot roll
John Gurney is absent from Weymouth's 1636 Fresh Pond 'great lot' roll of sixteen named householders - evidence he was not yet a Weymouth householder as early as 1636, consistent with an arrival after 1636 rather than with the town's founding cohort.
Search scope
- Searched: Nash, Historical Sketch of the Town of Weymouth (1885), Appendix C — Weymouth 1636 Fresh Pond 'great lot' roll (sixteen named householders)
- Coverage window: 1636 to 1636
- Search: Checked the sixteen-name 1636 Fresh Pond great-lot allocation (six acres per adult) for John Gurney.
- Results reviewed: 0
- Limitations: The 1636 roll is a single household-scaled allocation, not a Weymouth census; the absence bounds his householder standing in 1636, not necessarily his physical presence in the town.; Two of his later East Field abutters, Edmund Hart and Thomas Rawling, do appear in the 1636 cohort, so the East Field itself was being settled by 1636.
Qualifications and conflicts
- Qualifies Finding Admitted Weymouth inhabitant (c. 1638/9-1642/4)The 1636 great-lot absence refines the start of John's inhabitant standing: he was not yet a Weymouth householder in 1636, so his admitted-inhabitant window opens after 1636.
Related context
- Provides context for Finding Arrival window: 1638–early 1641The 1636 householder absence is a cross-topic lower edge on the arrival window developed in the arrival-chronology unit (arrival after 1636).
Sources
- Nash, Gilbert. Historical Sketch of the Town of Weymouth, Massachusetts, from 1622 to 1884. Weymouth, Massachusetts: Town of Weymouth, under the auspices of the Weymouth Historical Society, 1885. Printed by Alfred Mudge & Son, Boston., Appendix C, p. 280 (1636 Fresh Pond great-lot roll of sixteen householders)
sixteen named householders receive the 1636 Fresh Pond great lots; John Gurney is not among them
Technical details
- Evidence marker:
G13-PM-000026 - Primary research item:
G13-RI-000044 - Graph revision:
244 - Machine-readable JSON:
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