PUFFER, Ephraim

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• Milit-Beg: 30 May 1775, MA
• Milit-End: 1 Aug 1775, MA
• Residence: 1790, Ashby, MA
• Residence: 1800, Ludlow, VT
• Residence: 1810
• Residence: 1820, VT

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He was a soldier in the Revolution from Ashby in 1777. He was a farmer at Stow, MA and Ludlow, VT.

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Ephraim married SMITH, Abigail on 10 Jan 1782 in Ashby, MA. Abigail was born in 1759; died on 7 Mar 1813 in Ludlow, VT; was buried in Andover, VT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. PUFFER, Abigail was born on 9 Jun 1784 in Ashby, MA; died before 1884.
2. PUFFER, Ephraim was born on 31 Aug 1786 in Ashby, MA; died on 6 Oct 1848 in Andover, VT; was buried in Andover, VT.
3. PUFFER, Samuel was born on 25 Sep 1788 in Ashby, MA; died in 1852 in CA; was buried in Putney, VT.
4. PUFFER, Sally was born on 22 Aug 1790 in Ashby, MA; died in Apr 1860 in Norfolk, MA.
5. PUFFER, Polly was born on 4 Dec 1792 in Ashby, MA; died before 1892.
6. PUFFER, Lucy was born on 10 Sep 1794 in Ashby, MA; died on 10 Feb 1866 in VT; was buried in Andover, VT.
7. PUFFER, Levi was born on 27 Sep 1796 in Ashby, MA; died in May 1860 in Oswegatchie, NY; was buried in Heuvelton, NY.
8. PUFFER, Simon was born in 1800 in Ludlow, VT; died in 1866 in Hamburg, NY; was buried in Clarence, NY.
9. PUFFER, Amos was born on 16 Jun 1801 in Grafton, VT; died on 30 Mar 1857 in Coxsackie, NY; was buried in Catskill, NY.
10. PUFFER, Deacon Abel was born on 2 Apr 1805 in Ludlow, VT; died on 8 Jun 1882 in Hastings, MI; was buried in Otsego, MI.

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• Confirmation: 8 Nov 1741, Sudbury, MA

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He joined the church at Sudbury, Nov. 8, 1741, and his wife joined July 27, 1746. The removed to Stow before 1750, and he died there in 1757. Joseph Darby was appointed guardian of his minor children, Jonathan, Simon, Catharine and Ephraim. His widow Mary Crown relinquished her right of dower in the Puffer estate, April 9, 1770. She had married again. He was a soldier in Capt. Josiah Brown's Co. in 1739, in the French War.

Ephraim married DARBY, Mary on 29 Mar 1746 in Stow, MA. Mary (daughter of DARBY, Joseph, daughter of DARBY, Joseph) was born on 20 Jul 1727 in Stow, MA; died in 1756 in MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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She relinquished her right of dower in the Puffer estate, Apr 9 1770.

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• Confirmation: 21 May 1704, Braintree, MA
• Residence: 1712, Sudbury, MA

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Baptized in Sudbury Feb 22, 1673-4. He and his wife joined the Braintree church, May 21, 1704. He was a boatman, resided at Ship Cove, now Quincy Neck. "Jabez Puffer, boatman, for L 20 7s, sold to John Ruggles 4 acres of upland and meadow called the "great fence field" near the house of Ruggles. Bounded westerly on land of Samuel Newcome, deceased, easterly and northwesterly on land of Ruggles, southerly on the creek called Sheep Cove." In 1712, he bought land in Sudbury and came with his brother James to settle there. He was captain of the Sudbury company (militia). His farm was in the northeast part of Sudbury in what is now Maynard, near Puffer's Pond, which took it's name from the family.

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Jabez married GLAZIER, Mary on 3 Dec 1702 in Braintree, MA. Mary (daughter of GLAZIER, John and GEORGE, Elizabeth) was born on 6 Oct 1682 in Sudbury, MA; died on 2 Jan 1749 in Braintree, MA; was buried in Wayland, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Born about 1624, probably in England. He succeeded his father's homestead in Braintree and lived there to the end of his life. His farm was at Ship's Cove, now called Quincy Neck, and he also owned land in what is now the town of Randolph. Though he followed farming, he is also described as a boatman. He was elected constable in place of John Bass, Mch 1679-80. He died at Braintree, July 25, 1692, aged about sixty-eight years. He married at Braintree, February 14, 1656, Mary Ludden, who was born at Weymouth, December 17, 1636, daughter of James Ludden, a pioneer of the town of Weymouth, corporal of the military company and town officer. She died at Braintree, July 22, 1700.

(References" Prince's Chronology, p. 407; Winthrop's New England, p. 92 , Vol. I; Drakes Boston, pp. 145-6.)

In the will of John Saunders of Braintree, 1684, he describes his land as "Next the sea" adjoining James Puffer's. (Suffolk, XVI, p. 207.)

James married LUDDEN, Mary Swalden on 14 Feb 1656 in Braintree, MA. Mary (daughter of LUDDEN, Capt. Cpl. James and JOHNSON, Mary) was born on 17 Dec 1636 in Weymouth, MA; died on 22 Jul 1700 in Braintree, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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John married GEORGE, Elizabeth in 1661 in Charleston, MA. Elizabeth (daughter of GEORGE, John and Elizabeth) was born in 1640 in Charleston, MA; died on 7 Apr 1691 in Lancaster, MA; was buried in Lancaster, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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