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FLANDERS MASS. DEATHS & BURIALS


Surname Flanders
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Bev Gillihan (bgill2)
Date submitted Sep 27, 2005

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At a meeting of the proprietors holden at Amesbury, Mass., March 15, 1738, it was determined to lay out sixty-three five­acre lots for settlement. Chose a committee for that purpose. Also chose their first board of selectmen. March 17, Thomas Rowel and Jonathan Barnard took the oath of office as selectmen, before Orlando Bagley, justice of the peace.

At a meeting of the proprietors of the township No. 1, June 23, 1738, the committee appointed to make some surveys for settlements, &c. reported, that they had laid out sixty-three house lots, containing about five acres each. These lots were laid out in the vicinity of Gen. Aquila Davis' mills.

The following individuals drew for their lots at that time, and continued their interest in the town till its final settlement, viz: John Allen, John Hoyt, Jacob Currier, Joseph Quimby, Samuel Barnard, John Challis, Ebenezer Wells, Nehemiah Ordway, John Jewet, Joseph Jones, John Nichols, David Ring, Elihu Gould, Stephen Morrill, John Pressey, Stephen Sargent, William Straw, Benjamin Tucker, Aaron Rowell, Jonathan Pressey, Gideon Rowell, Jarvis Ring, Francis Davis, John Sargent, Jonathan Barnard, John Jewel, James Ordway, Paine Wingate, Samuel Straw, Ichabod Colby, Jeremiah FLANDERS, Thomas Rowell. One lot was reserved for the first settled minister, one for the second minister, and one for the use of a school.
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Amesbury - Salisbury Point Cemetery 1788:

RALPH C. FLANDERS
DIED: JULY 20, 1800
AND
SALLY FLANDERS
DIED: NOVEMBER 17, 1813
AGE: 30 YRS
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Newburyport - Old Hill Burying Ground

SARAH HACKETT FLANDERS
IN MEMORY OF MRS. SARAH FLANDERS
RELIC OF MR. NEHEMIAH FLANDERS
BORN: 25 OCT 1716 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts
DIED: MATRCH 16, 1791
MARRIED: 23 FEB 1737/38 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts
CHILDREN: Jarvis FLANDERS, Nehemiah FLANDERS.
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Amesbury - Salisbury Plains Cemetery 1640

BENJAMIN EVANS FLANDERS
In memory] of
[son of] John & [Betty] Flanders
who died Octr 21, 1796
aged 3 years
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Union Cemetery, Amesbury Massachusetts

SERGEANT JARVIS FLANDERS
In Memory of
Mr Jarvis Flanders
who died Jan.ry 24th 1778
In ye 39th Year of his Age
Morrill's Minutemen Rev. War
Mrs Mary DAVIS Flanders
SONS:
Benaiah
1769-1771
Benaiah
1772-1815
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Death Notices
in the Vineyard Gazette
1850 - 1875

Flanders, Alvin
07/21/54 Chilmark
a60y
Flanders, Mrs. Hannah
07/22/70 Chilmark
100y
Flanders, Mrs. Mary
03/23/66 Dartmouth
65y Chilmark
Flanders, Olivia F
10/31/62 Chilmark
20y
Flanders, Richard W
05/29/68 Sea
a30y
Flanders, Capt. William
05/19/54 Chilmark
a42y
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