SMALL, Edward b. Abt 1600 England d. 10 Feb 1665 Maine, England

Puffer Genealogy

Abt 1600 - 1665 (65 years)

Name	SMALL, Edward
Birth	Abt 1600	England
Christening	St. Mary, Biddeford, Devonshire, England
Gender	Male
Birth	1600	Bideford, Devonshire, England
Death	10 Feb 1665	Maine, England
Death	Aft 1665
Name	Edward Small Smalley
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Person ID	I17222	Puffers
Last Modified	15 Jan 2019

Family SHIRTS, Elizabeth, b. 1603, Bideford, Devonshire, England d. 10 Feb 1665, Bideford, Devonshire, England (Age 62 years)

Marriage Abt 1624 Bideford, Devonshire, England

Married Abt 1624 Devonshire, England

Children

	1. SMALLEY\SMALL, Francis, b. 6 Oct 1625, St. Marys Parish, Bideford Co. Devonshire, England d. 1714, Truro, MA (Age 88 years)
	2. SMALLEY, Elizabeth, b. 1626/7, St. Mary's, Bideford, Devonshire, England d. 6 Jul 1627, St. Mary's, Bideford, Devonshire, England (Age 0 years)
	3. SMALLEY, Mary, b. 5 May 1629, St. Mary's, Bideford, Devonshire, England d. 5 May 1629, St. Mary's, Bideford, Devonshire, England (Age 0 years)
	4. SMALL, Edmond, b. 2 Mar 1630, Bideford, Devonshire, England d. Yes, date unknown
	5. SMALLE, Elizabeth, b. 1631/2, St. Mary's, Bideford, Devonshire, England d. 10 Oct 1632, St. Mary's, Bideford, Devonshire, England (Age 0 years)
	6. SMALLEY, Elizabeth, b. 10 Oct 1632, St. Mary's, Bideford, Devonshire, England d. 27 Dec 1635, St. Mary's, Bideford, Devonshire, England (Age 3 years)
	7. SMALLEY, William, b. 1633/4, St. Mary's, Bideford, Devonshire, England d. 4 Feb 1633/4, St. Mary's, Bideford, Devonshire, England (Age 0 years)

Family ID F2635 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 21 Apr 2024

Notes

Edward Small, who came to America about 1632, was probably from Dartmouth, or some other point in Devonshire, England, where the family has long been one of high character and position. He is said to have come under the auspices of his kinsman, Sir Ferdinando Gorges. He, with Champernown and others, founded Piscataqua, which was afterwards divided into the Maine towns of Kittery, Eliot, South Berwick, and Berwick. Edward Small was at the first general court at Saco in 1640, also member of the grand jury the same year. His name was entered on the list as "Edward Small, gent." We find him at old Falmouth, Maine, in 1640; a magistrate there in 1645; and that afterwards he was at the Isle of Shoals. He was one of the magistrates of the general court held at Saco, October 21, 1645. He seems to have built a house in Piscataqua before 1643, as the grant of one hundred acres made to him July 25, 1643, by Thomas Gorges, deputy governor of the Province of Maine (in behalf of Sir Ferdinando Gorges Kt. Ld., proprietor of said province) was specified as "lying between two crickes of each side of the house of the said Edward Small, and so backward to Sturgeon Crick," five shillings yearly being payment for the same. Five years later, June 23, 1647, Edward Small sold this tract of land and "my dwelling house field" to Antipus Maverick, for forty-five pounds. No mention of wife or children is found in any deed or record. The last mention we find of him is in the Isle of Shoals, in 1653. He probably returned to England.