Lydia Smalley

John married Lydia Martin on 18 Oct 1667 in Piscataway, Middlesex County, NJ. Lydia was born about 1655 in Dover, Stafford County, NH; died on 20 Sep 1731 in Piscataway, Middlesex County, NJ. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Will: 16 Jul 1689, Piscataway, Middlesex County, NJ

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Ancestry.com:
Occupation Tailor. John came on the WILLIAM & FRANCIS, (another source gives the ship name as Francis and James) Sailing from London March 9, 1632 and arrived in New England, June 05, 1632. He came with Edward Winslow, afterwards Governor of the Plymouth Colony. In 1637/38, a garden place at Willingsley Brook and six acres upon Woberry Plain, in Plymouth County, were granted "John Smalley"; and in 1640, five acres in the south Meadows towards Agawam, Colebrook Meadows. These tree lots of land he sold, March 21, 1644, to Edmund Tilson, with all his house and housing and garden place . September 07, 1641, he was propounded for freeman; admitted and sworn, March 01, 1641/42. In August, 1643 " John Smalley " appeared in a list of "all the males that are able to bear armes from 15 years old to 60 years within the several Townshipps," in Plymouth Colony. He was among the prominent men who removed from Plymouth in April 1644, to Nauset (Now Eastham), far down on Cape Cod, were John. Resided in Plymouth. freeman March 1, 1642. Moved to Eastham, Mass. 1645, and Piscataway by 1670. John Smalley, and associate of Richard Higgins and other pioneers in the settlement at Nausett, was neither freeman nor tax Payer at Plymouth in 1636. He was, However at Plymouth as early as 1638. By trade he was a tailor. He seems to have taken but very little part of public affairs. He was admitted a freeman at Plymouth in 1642. He was a constable at Nausett in 1646, A surveyor in 1649, and of the Grand Inquest in 1654, 1660, and 1665. He was specially favored by the court, and had land granted him in 1658 between Bridgewater and Weymouth, and in 1662 near Taunton. John Smalley married Ann Walden in Plymouth, Nov. 19, 1638. Or the date could have been November 29, 1638 No full list of his children appears. He had Hannah, born at Plymouth, June 14, 1641; John, at Plymouth, Sept. 1644; Isaac and Mary twins Dec. 11, 1647. The time of his death is not known, and we fail to find any settlement of his estate. He was living in January, 1668, and had a ward some six years of age, who wandered six or seven miles from his house into the woods and died from exposure. John Smalley was undoubtedly a man who did not seek notoriety. He seemed to enjoy the quietness of his farm more than the honors and troubles of office. He lived in peace with all men, there can be no doubt, and we gathered to his fathers in peace. Many have supposed that from him descended the Smalley or Smalls of the Cape. Ann Walden died on Jan 29, 1694 in Piscataway, New Jersey. In April, 1644, he was among the group form Plymouth to remove to Eastman, far down the Cape Cod. At Eastham he helped to organize the place, and then about 1667, with his wife and two sons he removed to Little Compton, R.I., but soon afterward with Richard Higgins and others he removed to Piscataway, Middlesex Co., N.J., where he was among the earliest of Pioneer freeholders.

Somerset County Historical Quarterly, Vol VI, p. 39
SMALLEY.--John Smalley, of Devonshire, England, came to America in 1632, in the ship "Francis and James," and settled at Cape Cod, Mass.; m., about 1640, but name of wife unknown. Much later he settled in Piscataway, N.J., and d. in 1692. Sons were John, Jr. (who was b. in Mass. Sept. 8, 1644; d. 1733; m. Lydia Martin), and Isaac. Senator William W. Smalley, of Bound Brook, descends from this John, Jr., as do the Smalleys of North Plainfield.

The Story of an Old Farm or Life in New Jersey in the 18th Century, Page 194
It will be remembered that in a previous chapter an account was given of how John Martin, Charles Gilman, Hugh Dun, and Hopewell Hull, had removed to New Jersey from Piscataqua, New England, in response to the "Concessions and Agreements" published in the East by the lords-proprietors, Berkeley and Carteret. They received a grant on the eighteenth of December, 1666, for the large area of territory which now embraces the township of Piscataway. Within twenty years settlers from New England and the old country had augmented the nucleus of population formed by the Piscataway families to about four hundred. Among the persons to whom land was allotted previous to 1690 are to be found the following names: Nicholas Bonham, 122 acres; Benjamin Clarke, 275 acres; George Drake, 424 acres; Hugh Dun, 138 acres; Benajah Dunham, 103 1/2 acres; Edmund Dunham, 100 acres; John Fitz-Randolph, 225 acres; Rehoboth Gannett, 224 acres; Charles Gilman, 340 acres; Hopewell Hull, 284 acres ;Benjamin Hull, innkeeper, 498 acres; John Langstaff, 300 acres; John Martin, 334 acres; Jeffery Maning, 195 acres; John Mollison, 100 acres; Nicholas Mundaye, 101 1/2 acres; Vincent Rongnion, 154 1/2 acres; John Smalley, 118 1/2 acres; Edward Slater, 464 acres.

John married Anne Walden on 29 Nov 1639 in Plymouth, Plymouth County, MA. Anne was born about 1611; died on 29 Jan 1692/93 in Piscataway, Middlesex County, NJ. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]