The Evered/Webb Connection

help and comforte unto them; as is his facultie...and he and ye rest of their brethren much lamented by them; and caused much sadnes & mourning amongst them; which caused them to humble them selves, & seeke ye Lord; and towards winter it pleased the Lord ye sicknes ceased...This disease allso swept away many of ye Indeans from all ye places near adjoyning; and ye spring before, espetially all ye month of May, ther was such a quantitie of a great sorte of flies, like to wasps, or bumble-bees, which came out of holes in ye ground, and replenished all ye woods, and eate ye green-things, and made such a constante yelling noyes, as made all ye woods ring of them, and ready to deafe ye hearers. They have not by ye English been heard or seen before or since. But ye Indeans tould them ye sickness would follow, and so it did in Jun, Jul, Aug, and ye cheefe heat of somer. Thomas Blossom was age 66 when he died in 1633 after spending a quarter of his adult life in Leiden. His wife, Anne married 2nd Henry Rowley on Oct 17th 1633 and lived in Scituate. Thomas and Anne’s daughter Elizabeth was noted in the previous FitzRandolph family history. Thomas Blossom, jr. married on Jun 18th 1645 in Barnstable, Sarah Ewer, with Edmond Freeman performing the ceremony. Thomas’ son Peter Blossom married Sarah Bodfish Jun 21st 1666 in West Barnstable, MA. The Evered/Webb Connection John Evered als Webb came with his brother Stephen and John Pike in the James in 1635. He settled in Boston where he joined Boston’s First Church and was declared a freeman on Dec 7th 1636. John Evered married the widow Mary Fayreweather who had a son John. The only mention of Mary’s son John is in a deed of gift that she made to him prior to her second marriage. In 1641 John Evered became a merchant involved in a fishing enterprise off the Isle of Sable, Nova Scotia. A Commission to John Webb als __of Boston and his company to trade & doe their business at the Isle of Sables & to pass in the barke “Endeavor” of Salem whereof is Master Joseph Grafton. The sandy half moon shaped Sables Isle lies offshore in the Atlantic where the area is considered the Atlantic’s Graveyard due to so many ship wrecks in the area. Seal, cod, and other fish abounded in that area. After leaving Boston, John and Mary Evered moved to suburban Braintree on 90 acres by the Monatiquot River. He became a military officer in 1643. They moved to a farm in 1659 that he was granted by the General Court to military officers at Chelmsford. As Captain his notable duty as the hanging of Mary Dyer in 1660. They moved to Dracut in 1665 where he wrote his will. These towns were located on the Merrimack River which enters Massachusetts from New Hampshire at the town of Tyngsborough and from there, goes past or through Chelmsford, Lowell, Dracut, Tewksbury, Andover, Methuen, Lawrence, North Andover, Haverhill, Groveland, West Newbury, Merrimac, Amesbury, Salisbury and Newburyport into the Atlantic ocean. Timber from New Hampshire was floated down the Merrimack River for commercial purposes. From this one can see that most of the towns settled in northern Massachusetts were located on or near the river. John did a lot of buying and selling land and obviously kept his business contacts with Boston as noted in his will. The following abstraction of John’s Will states that he was related to the Ayers family. Exactly what the relationship is has yet to be discovered due to word usage changes over the centuries. 60.

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