Every person named across the 469 transcribed pages (Powwell_Town_Records_1639-1695_Vol1_transcribed.pdf, page 1, and pages 002–469 in transcribed.html), alphabetized by surname. Spelling in the manuscript is wildly inconsistent (e.g. Goodenow/Goodnow/Goodenough, Haines/Haynes/Hayme, Noyes/Noyse, Parmenter/Parminter); each entry below groups the variant spellings under one modern form, cross-checked where possible against A.S. Hudson's History of Sudbury, Massachusetts, "Index to Names." Where the manuscript gives no given name, or a reading or identification is doubtful, the entry is marked ★ and shown in red. Clicking a page number opens that page (also transcribed at transcribed.html, anchored to the same page number). 346 people are indexed below; a further 56 names recorded in the volume were excluded as non-Sudbury persons (colony officials, outside treasurers, out-of-town neighbors in land transactions, etc. — see the table at the foot of this page).
| Person | Notes | Leaves |
|---|
| James Adams | Of Concord; granted liberty to feed cattle on the Sudbury bounds. | 210 |
| John Adams | Fence surveyor and tithingman in the 1680s-90s; lent money toward town acts and contributed to the meetinghouse gable fund. | 391 403 411 430 438 464 |
| Richard Adams | Delinquent ratepayer who repeatedly hired Cedar Swamp and Bull/Ridge Meadow parcels in the 1690s. | 347 359 388 405 417 |
| William Adams | Chosen to sweep the meetinghouse and granted timber to build a small house. | 227 238 |
| Alcoke ★ | Physician paid for curing Widow Hunt; compare Srerie Avery, a Dedham physician summoned for the same case. | 167 |
| Daniel Allen | Witness to a Crane contract; stood bond for his son Samuel and, of Watertown, for a son-in-law's settlement. | 214 358 435 |
| John Allen | Long-serving selectman, constable, and fence surveyor from the 1670s-90s; helped inventory Jonathan Griffin's estate and administer the Gleason relief fund. | 192 221 222 244 257 260 268 277 280 281 282 286 295 300 308 317 328 333 341 357 359 363 396 398 400 414 416 427 428 435 445 460 462 463 |
| Joseph Allen | Witness to Benjamin Crane's contract. | 214 |
| Robert Allen | Referenced at the middle part of Long Meadow. | 359 |
| Samuel Allen | Came to town with his wife and children without leave and was refused settlement as an inhabitant; later served as overseer of swine. | 356 358 445 |
| Srerie Avery ★ | Of Dedham; a physician summoned for Widow Hunt (compare Alcoke). 'Srerie' may be a garbled rendering of the title 'Surgeon' rather than a given name. | 215 |
| Mary Axtell | Widow who sold her house to Edmond Rice. | 037 |
| Thomas Axtell | Bought upland from Edmond Rice and took the oath of fidelity. | 037 041 061 |
| Person | Notes | Leaves |
|---|
| James Barnard | Sergeant and constable active from the 1680s through the mid-1690s; served on the new-meetinghouse committee, managed highway and Concord-meadow disputes, and was chosen selectman in Grout's stead. | 318 330 343 346 371 375 382 385 390 392 405 411 414 423 424 429 430 431 432 435 437 442 451 453 454 460 461 462 |
| Richard Barnard | Took the oath of fidelity. | 061 |
| Bassingewayght ★ | Sold land to John Freeman. | 015 |
| Beards ★ | A Watertown representative. | 118 |
| Robert Beast | Received meadow and upland grants across the first three land divisions; later party to a meadow exchange with the Parmenter family. | 005 007 012 013 038 042 043 044 052 058 061 081 087 138 341 |
| Ambrose Beech | Signer of a town order; likely the same person as Ambrose Leech. | 023 |
| Thomas Beisbeich | Early landholder granted meadow and upland parcels near Ashen Swamp; his holdings later served as a recurring boundary landmark. | 056 077 082 094 100 120 143 |
| Andrew Belcher | Fence overseer for the south field who received meadow and upland grants in the early divisions; sold his houselot to John Goodnow. | 003 007 012 014 046 047 057 061 087 124 |
| Bemon ★ | An elderly widow whose care and condition the selectmen took under consideration, c. 1690s (compare Joseph Bradish). | 434 460 |
| Bent ★ | Granted upland, rated to highway work, and served as tythingman for a Bent-named precinct; likely one of John, Peter, or Robert Bent below. | 014 258 277 438 453 |
| Elezeboth Bent | Appointed schoolmistress for the farm end of town, 1694. | 442 |
| John Bent | Selectman and fence surveyor active from the founding era into the 1670s-80s; a signer of the town's earliest wage, price, and land-recording orders, and grantor of a meadow deed to Thomas Plympton. | 005 013 014 017 021 032 037 039 040 041 047 049 051 058 062 063 072 076 082 091 092 093 095 106 115 125 138 168 174 187 296 316 319 365 368 369 414 416 |
| Martha Bent | Wife of John Bent; joined him in a deed acknowledgment. | 093 |
| Peter Bent | Constable and fence surveyor (1st circuit) in the 1670s-80s; granted upland at Lanham and party to a meadow-line dispute. | 126 142 149 158 181 308 403 419 430 433 435 |
| Robert Bent | Took the oath of fidelity. | 061 |
| Richard Bildcome | Servant of Walter Hayme. | 050 |
| Thomas Blake | Transported back to Old England at the town's expense, one of several poor-relief cases in the 1690s. | 439 |
| John Blandford | Long-serving fence and highway surveyor and constable from the founding era through the 1670s-80s; held the first squadron's first lot and hired Long Meadow for decades. | 006 007 009 012 021 038 042 047 051 052 059 072 076 095 100 113 116 125 127 136 144 148 168 174 175 182 192 195 203 205 208 209 213 217 221 228 231 237 244 257 258 260 262 266 286 365 |
| Joseph Blandford | Received a copy of the swine order. | 312 |
| Stephen Blandford | Tythingman and fence surveyor (6th circuit) in the 1680s, likely John Blandford's son; alternate pound keeper and holder of the town's public ammunition stock. | 299 300 309 310 367 382 388 414 421 |
| Thomas Born | Appointed to repair the town pound. | 275 |
| Edmond Bowker | Rated to highway work at the Lanham bridge and contributed to the meetinghouse gable fund. | 411 438 464 |
| John Bowker | Listed as a delinquent ratepayer. | 347 |
| Joseph Bradish | Allowed twenty shillings and meadow use for caring for Widow Bemon; also party to a meadow-line dispute. | 149 460 461 |
| John Brewer | Selectman, constable, and meetinghouse-building committee member from the 1670s-90s; helped view land exchanges and disburse funds for constable staves. | 195 220 227 244 254 260 268 275 280 282 284 300 304 335 337 346 373 375 381 388 390 394 403 405 414 445 460 462 465 |
| Thomas Brewer | Chosen constable. | 229 |
| John Brigham | Referenced at the boundary of a meadow lot. | 460 |
| John Brooks | Hired Swath Meadow through the 1680s-90s and, together with his wife, requested a life-grant of land from the town. | 282 406 417 420 433 459 |
| Browne ★ | Almost certainly Pastor Edmond Browne, referenced repeatedly for meadow allowances, meetinghouse contributions, and (after his death c. 1680) settlement of his estate. | 065 090 101 161 167 173 376 397 400 403 406 407 416 |
| Ann Browne | Widow of Pastor Edmond Browne; paid further sums toward his estate. | 270 |
| Edmond Browne | Sudbury's minister from the founding era until his death c. 1680; received substantial land grants and, on his death, willed fifty pounds toward establishing a school in Sudbury. | 004 006 008 013 016 019 023 032 039 050 059 110 124 137 156 185 198 240 243 270 |
| Edward Browne | Referenced at a land boundary. | 079 |
| Hopestill Browne | Constable and civic officer active through the 1680s-90s; sat on the committee handling John Brooks's life-grant request and contributed toward Widow Wedge's house. | 245 300 314 322 382 404 406 409 411 412 413 422 429 443 460 |
| Jabez Browne | Constable and fence surveyor (7th circuit) in the 1680s-90s, son of John Blandford by a different surname; hired Hart Pond and Pine Meadow parcels. | 218 229 231 254 257 259 266 280 282 305 309 361 385 436 437 440 |
| John Browne | Fence surveyor (4th circuit) and contributor to the meetinghouse gable fund. | 308 411 |
| Thomas Browne | Selectman and constable across four decades from the founding era into the 1680s; received grants in all three early land divisions and once volunteered to travel and preach in the pastor's absence. | 005 007 012 042 069 070 077 100 101 124 221 231 233 234 236 240 241 244 246 252 253 254 256 257 260 268 276 282 299 300 306 309 317 327 328 343 348 355 361 364 371 375 377 378 381 382 386 390 393 394 397 399 404 405 407 411 412 413 416 420 426 427 431 432 434 436 443 446 450 451 454 460 461 463 465 467 468 |
| William Browne | Selectman and general surveyor of fences across four decades; helped lay the Watertown boundary line and build the town pound with Goodnow. | 005 007 009 012 019 022 027 047 056 059 060 064 070 072 075 082 086 087 089 090 093 094 099 100 101 105 106 107 108 120 124 127 135 137 159 173 174 322 368 391 411 414 423 426 |
| Brush ★ | A Watertown representative. | 118 |
| Thomas Buckmaster | Received a first-division meadow grant of three acres; his houselot later served as a boundary reference. | 006 007 102 |
| Bulkley ★ | Referenced in connection with cattle. | 085 |
| Jacob Bullard | Ordered to depart the town, one of several 'undesirable persons' expelled under the standing 1665 order. | 355 |
| Jeremiah Bummer | Issued a receipt for a poor-relief contribution. | 427 |
| Richard Burk | Delinquent ratepayer, referenced at the end of a tythingman's precinct. | 258 347 |
| John Bush | Constable who enforced the ladder-and-fire order and was himself later listed as a delinquent ratepayer. | 312 317 347 409 |
| Person | Notes | Leaves |
|---|
| Cakebread ★ | An earlier-generation Cakebread, likely Thomas Cakebread's father (cf. a later reference to "his Father Cakebread"), tied to land near the mill and a cranberry swamp. | 013 034 069 |
| Thomas Cakebread | Built the town's first mill in the 1640s in exchange for a large land grant, with later additions; his holdings served as a boundary reference for decades. | 003 012 078 080 104 106 164 |
| Sara Cakebread | Thomas Cakebread's widow; received land from his estate beginning October 1643 and later sold upland to Richard Sanger, her name serving as a boundary landmark for years after. | 015 039 057 066 069 076 077 078 |
| Joseph Carlise | Requested a half-acre land exchange with the town. | 254 |
| Sibrian Carter | A shoemaker, son-in-law of Daniel Allen. | 435 |
| Thomas Carter | At one point ordered by the constable to depart the town, yet later trusted with the care of the poor townsman Jonathan Griffin's livestock and paid for it — whether these are the same man is unresolved in the record. | 293 333 351 354 394 403 |
| Chamberlin ★ | Referenced only as a fence-circuit boundary landmark. | 287 |
| Benjamin Chamberlin | Agreed to pay a fine and finish his portion of a causeway; later listed as a delinquent ratepayer. | 226 268 347 |
| John Chamberlin | Of Roxbury; owed the town for William Taylor's medical care, and granted five acres of land. | 177 422 |
| Joseph Chamberlin | Bought five acres of land from the town near Obadiah Ward's land, paying four pounds. | 347 383 386 388 454 |
| Noah Clapp | Contributed to the fund for building Widow Wedge's house. | 460 |
| William Cleines | Granted liberty to fell timber for building a house. | 157 |
| Collar ★ | Party to a land exchange; the record's own account of this transaction is internally unclear about whether "Collar" and "John Tolles" name the same grantee or two different ones (see John Toll). | 432 |
| John Coller | Requested to buy or exchange an acre of land with the town. | 431 |
| Obadiah Cooledg | Contributed to a fund for building a gable, likely on the meetinghouse. | 411 |
| Benjamin Crane | Covenanted with the town, for himself and his heirs, to maintain a stretch of highway running through his land. | 213 214 318 |
| Curtis ★ | Served on a committee to view land requested by Moore. | 425 |
| Ephraim Curtis | Highway surveyor who also covenanted to board and shingle the meetinghouse, for which he was paid twenty-eight pounds. | 173 192 198 199 |
| Henry Curtis | Early landholder who received grants across the first three land divisions and served as a fence surveyor; a later record refers to him as "Curtis's father," implying he had died by then. | 006 007 011 038 046 047 057 061 064 076 124 136 173 174 220 221 345 |
| John Curtis | Witness to Thomas Steevens's meadow grant. | 244 |
| Joseph Curtis | Long-serving town officer from the 1680s-90s -- constable, fence and highway surveyor, and repeatedly sworn tythingman -- also involved in several land exchanges around Pine Plain and Pantry Meadow. | 244 268 274 280 287 290 291 316 319 323 331 334 336 345 349 391 394 396 400 403 406 414 416 417 418 419 424 428 430 439 443 444 454 460 |
| Person | Notes | Leaves |
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| Ephraim Garfield | Made rate-free by the town but later listed as a delinquent ratepayer. | 303 342 347 |
| Thomas Gates | Of Marlborough; granted liberty to live on a Sudbury farm, though later recorded as having left the town. | 205 255 |
| John Gibbs | Fence viewer and hog constable for the west side of town. | 430 438 |
| Mather Gibbs | Granted thirty rods of land at Lanham. | 158 |
| Matthew Gibbs | Granted land at Lanham and served as constable, paying the country rates to the colony treasurer. | 130 142 181 197 202 215 242 438 |
| Matthew Gibbs, Jr. | Sworn tythingman; proposed to buy meadow near the Danforth land. | 347 349 408 411 |
| Matthew Gibbs, Sr. | Constable and tythingman (succeeding Thomas Read Sr. in the latter office); granted land at Lanham surveyed by Goodnow and Grout. | 230 235 273 394 413 |
| Thomas Gibbs | Bought land at Lanham; later listed as a creditor of the town. | 374 382 411 |
| John Gleason | A poor townsman repeatedly excused from rates and given town relief in his final years; died intestate around December 1689, his estate passing to his widow Mary. | 277 282 298 303 326 355 356 357 398 |
| Jonathan Gleason | Chosen for the Jury of Trials. | 329 |
| Joseph Gleason | Selectman, constable, and fence surveyor across the 1680s-90s, repeatedly granted materials and meadow for his own use while serving the town in these offices. | 202 203 209 221 254 281 301 305 365 382 389 391 403 405 410 411 414 422 430 435 438 441 443 445 460 |
| Mary Gleason | James Rosse's daughter and John Gleason's widow after his intestate death (~December 1689); granted town relief. | 398 |
| Glover ★ | Mrs. Glover, whose 600-acre farm (set out per a General Court order) lay near Sudbury. | 010 |
| John Glover | Constable who paid the county rate; also served on the Jury of Trials. | 362 381 415 |
| Thomas Goble | Petitioned the town for a road alteration. | 157 |
| Goodman (Karte) | A Massachusett sachem, elsewhere called Cato, Carte, or Karte -- Hudson's History of Sudbury cross-references GOODMAN/GOODMAND/CATO/CARTE all to KARTE under its Indian Proper Names index, where he is a well-documented recurring figure (11 page citations). Received a land-bargain payment from the town in its founding era. | 086 087 088 |
| Goodnow ★ | Civic and surveying work (selectman, general fence surveyor, boundary-running with Watertown and Nashaway) attributable to one or more of the several Goodnow men active in Sudbury through the 1640s-80s -- not disambiguated among Edmond, John, and Thomas Goodnow here. | 112 114 116 117 118 122 133 138 141 143 144 145 147 148 150 152 156 157 158 160 163 165 166 167 168 172 174 176 181 208 225 235 236 239 241 246 248 252 253 257 263 284 318 376 419 440 |
| Edmond Goodnow | Among the town's most active founding-era figures — an original grantee and near-constant signer of town orders across five decades, later titled Lieutenant and Captain; still active as late as 1687, well into old age (earlier suspicion of his death was mistaken). | 005 007 009 010 011 012 013 014 015 016 017 018 020 021 022 026 028 029 032 033 034 035 036 037 038 039 042 043 044 045 046 048 049 050 051 053 054 055 056 059 060 062 063 064 065 066 067 069 070 071 072 073 079 080 081 082 083 084 086 087 089 090 091 093 094 095 096 099 100 101 102 105 106 107 108 110 111 112 113 116 117 118 119 120 122 123 124 125 126 130 136 142 143 144 145 146 147 155 159 173 178 179 183 184 186 188 190 193 197 200 204 206 207 211 216 218 226 227 229 230 234 236 242 243 244 246 253 258 260 274 275 278 281 294 295 296 300 317 330 337 383 386 402 403 416 419 430 |
| Edmond Goodnow, Junr. | Appointed to enforce the swine order, 1689 — a third, younger Goodnow, distinct from the elder Edmond and from Capt./Ens. John Goodnow. | 389 |
| Jane Goodnow | A widow of the Goodnow family; land laid out to her by Mr. Thomas Noyes, and party to a meadow-line dispute, 1650s-80s. | 124 149 412 |
| John Goodnow | A recurring John/Capt.-Ens. John Goodnow, active in land transactions from the 1640s and, from around 1680, serving repeatedly as selectman, commissioner, ensign/captain, and long-time town clerk; the record does not resolve whether this reflects one very long career or two men of the same name. | 005 007 009 010 012 013 014 020 021 022 024 029 049 051 052 053 054 055 056 057 058 059 060 061 064 066 071 073 076 077 078 081 082 083 087 089 095 105 108 110 116 118 120 122 201 203 204 207 209 213 217 225 228 229 231 237 238 239 241 245 258 262 273 282 283 284 287 289 300 304 318 323 326 327 328 329 331 332 336 348 353 355 358 359 361 365 371 375 378 379 380 381 382 384 387 388 390 391 392 393 394 397 399 400 401 403 404 405 407 411 412 413 415 416 418 420 421 424 426 428 429 430 431 432 433 434 436 440 443 445 448 450 454 457 458 460 461 462 463 464 465 466 468 |
| Joseph Goodnow | Took part in an early perambulation party and was chosen to help run the east bound line with Watertown, 1640s-70s. | 010 176 |
| Thomas Goodnow | Fence overseer for the south field under the 1639 founding order; active through the 1650s-60s in land grants, exchanges, and highway and timber oversight. | 003 007 012 024 037 045 046 057 071 072 076 084 089 095 105 125 127 138 147 |
| William Goodnow | Granted liberty to let his son's farm to Capt. Pembleton, mid-1660s — one of only two Goodnow mentions not tied to the dominant Edmond or John. | 205 |
| Joseph Grane | Hired the ministers' meadow at the Lots End, 1660s-70s. | 192 |
| John Graves | Granted upland near his house and made rate-free by the town in the years after King Philip's War, 1670s-80s. | 263 268 282 284 287 298 303 |
| Joseph Graves | Hired common meadow at the Gulf with Rutter, contributed to the meetinghouse gable-building fund, and later did smithery work (a weathercock and staff) for the town, 1670s-90s. | 180 209 212 241 322 391 411 446 465 |
| Greene ★ | On a committee to examine the pastor's unpaid rates, 1670s — possibly an early appearance of John Greene, though the mention carries no title matching his usual pattern. | 241 |
| John Greene | Probably Thomas Steevens's brother (bought part of his meadow, 1670s); succeeded him as town clerk around 1682, having already served repeatedly as selectman and commissioner. | 010 243 245 259 278 281 294 300 314 315 317 330 331 337 346 348 355 361 365 382 384 |
| Griffin ★ | Referenced in garbled, damaged text concerning bridge repair, the meetinghouse-building covenant, and the Concord boundary line, 1650s — the surname reading itself is uncertain. | 109 111 112 |
| Hugh Griffin | Early town marshal and clerk, ordered to keep town-meeting minutes and to record births, marriages, and deaths; active chiefly in the 1640s-60s, with his name still used as a boundary landmark decades later. | 006 007 009 011 017 019 022 028 032 038 044 046 047 048 050 051 054 055 059 060 062 063 064 065 066 067 068 069 070 071 072 074 076 079 080 083 085 086 088 090 092 093 095 096 097 098 099 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 108 110 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 121 122 125 126 127 129 130 137 173 184 383 |
| Jonathan Griffin | A chronically poor and mentally ill townsman, the subject of sustained town relief through the 1670s-80s — rotated among households for care, later confined in a purpose-built log house during 'lunatick or frenzy fitts'; declared deceased and his sparse estate inventoried, c. 1685/86. | 245 277 283 285 289 293 303 321 332 335 344 348 351 356 |
| Joseph Griffin | Constable; paid the Country Rate, 1690. | 410 |
| Joseph Grimes | Promised to cover Wedg's meadow payment if he defaulted, 1660s. | 218 |
| Grout ★ | A recurring Grout referenced only by surname or military title across five decades — likely John Grout (the dominant figure) in most instances, though the family also includes his father and son of the same name; not disentangled here. | 146 150 152 157 158 161 163 165 166 167 169 174 176 192 193 195 200 233 235 236 239 246 257 263 268 275 284 286 301 308 323 341 358 359 379 400 403 415 431 435 439 |
| John Grout | The dominant Grout of the volume — selectman repeatedly, town clerk, ensign and later captain of the militia; active in land surveying, highway-laying, and boundary disputes with Watertown across five decades. | 034 044 058 061 081 082 083 084 085 091 093 094 095 096 097 099 103 104 106 112 120 122 124 127 133 138 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 152 156 164 168 175 178 179 182 184 186 188 189 190 192 193 195 197 198 200 204 206 207 211 214 216 217 218 221 226 227 228 229 230 231 234 236 247 253 258 260 265 266 269 274 275 281 285 286 287 296 300 305 306 317 330 331 334 336 348 350 355 361 364 365 375 376 378 379 381 382 385 386 388 390 408 413 422 427 428 429 442 457 459 462 |
| John Grout, Jr. | Son of the elder John Grout; served as tythingman for two different precincts and held the town's public ammunition stock during the tense 1688-89 period. | 209 212 244 267 268 269 316 320 330 331 346 414 428 |
| John Grout, Sr. | Selectman, distinguished in the record from his son of the same name. | 165 244 361 |
| Thomas Gsling | A ward kept by Thomas Rice during an illness, with a town rate added for his care, 1650s. | 154 157 |
| Person | Notes | Leaves |
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| Samuel Hadden | Listed as a delinquent ratepayer, 1680s. | 347 348 |
| Timothy Hawkins | Of Watertown; contracted to build the town's cart bridge, 1640s-50s. | 035 036 108 |
| Haynes ★ | A recurring Haynes/Haynes referenced by military or civic title without a given name — most such mentions likely belong to either Deacon John Haynes or Sergt./Left. Josiah Haynes, but the two have not been disentangled here. | 013 157 192 195 203 209 223 225 231 235 236 239 240 241 246 248 257 263 268 275 284 297 306 323 331 342 353 366 400 406 415 431 432 434 436 439 461 467 468 |
| James Haynes | Proposed and was granted a meadow exchange with the town, and later chosen overseer of swine, 1680s-90s. | 328 419 426 459 460 464 |
| John Haynes | Deacon John Haynes — one of the volume's most persistently active figures, engaged in land transactions from the 1640s through repeated selectman service; contracted (1686-87) to build the town's new square meetinghouse, subcontracting the framing to Left. Daniel Pond of Dedham. | 012 016 032 038 040 043 048 049 050 051 052 054 061 073 084 100 101 115 124 138 145 150 152 153 161 178 181 186 190 193 194 200 206 208 216 218 226 230 242 243 244 275 278 281 284 285 287 296 300 304 305 317 318 322 328 329 330 337 341 346 347 348 350 355 361 365 371 372 375 378 379 382 386 388 390 391 401 405 410 413 416 422 432 434 436 437 450 451 454 462 463 464 467 |
| Joseph Haynes | Took up his late father's timber duty and served as constable, replacing John Bent, 1680s-90s. | 164 201 369 394 464 |
| Josiah Haynes | Sergeant, later Lieutenant — repeated selectman and commissioner, surveyor of field fences, and a manager of the town's long-running suit and eventual deed settlement with Widow Loker. | 061 107 116 120 136 150 152 174 178 181 188 190 193 200 206 207 208 210 211 213 216 217 220 226 227 229 230 233 236 244 253 256 260 274 275 277 303 328 330 331 413 |
| Peter Haynes | Constable and tythingman; surveyed and laid out land for John Loker, and later hired meadow near Strawberry Hill. | 252 253 258 260 275 280 323 342 391 396 400 417 428 435 |
| Thomas Haynes | Received early first- and second-division meadow grants, 1639-40; no further mention. | 005 007 |
| Walter Haynes | One of the founding generation's most frequent signers of town orders — meadow allotments, fence rules, hog ordinances — from the 1639 fence order through the 1660s; also served as a field surveyor and collector of the pastor's rate. | 003 006 008 009 010 011 012 013 014 016 017 019 020 021 022 023 026 027 028 029 030 032 033 034 035 036 037 039 044 045 046 049 050 052 053 054 055 056 062 063 064 065 066 067 069 070 071 073 074 077 079 080 081 082 083 084 086 088 089 090 093 094 097 098 099 101 102 106 116 120 123 125 133 136 148 153 185 |
| Dennis Headly | A tenant taken in without the town's leave and repeatedly ordered to depart under the standing 1665 expulsion order; later, confusingly, chosen hog constable for the farm end. | 313 315 347 430 |
| Jeremiah Hood | Cancelled from the rate invoice, 1670s. | 277 |
| How ★ | A tavern of the How family used as the venue for assessors' business and King's Tax payments in the 1690s. | 449 456 |
| John How | Active across five decades in town affairs — witness to land sales, oath-taker, and (per one 1680s mention) named alongside his father Samuel How in a shared money-dispute liability. | 006 009 012 024 028 033 034 036 046 048 052 060 063 064 069 072 075 076 078 081 084 085 091 095 113 116 120 125 127 128 130 134 136 384 385 399 411 414 423 438 447 |
| Josiah How | Referenced as having departed the town, 1670s. | 255 |
| Samuel How | A leading civic figure of the volume's second half — constable, tythingman, jury member, and a driving force behind the new meetinghouse (1686-87) and the town's new pound and stocks; sent to fetch the town clerk at Stow. | 161 186 202 216 218 241 275 280 282 300 318 328 331 348 352 353 365 369 372 373 375 380 381 382 384 385 386 390 394 405 411 412 413 416 421 422 425 429 434 438 441 445 448 450 451 458 460 464 465 468 |
| William How | Bought upland from Goodnow and sold a house to Blandford, 1650s. | 050 051 058 061 |
| William Howard | Son-in-law of Stratton, received into the town as an inhabitant, 1660s. | 208 209 |
| Howell ★ | Referenced in a matter concerning College money, 1650s. | 115 |
| Thomas Hoyte | Witness, 1640. | 025 |
| Hunt ★ | Widow Hunt — granted an annual poor-relief pension (typically fifty shillings) for many years, and, on one occasion, attended by outside physicians (Mr. Alcoke and Surgeon Avery) for a serious illness. | 013 014 040 059 079 096 106 112 122 145 156 157 165 167 169 180 187 215 |
| Robert Hunt | Received early first- and second-division meadow grants, 1639-40. | 005 007 |
| Person | Notes | Leaves |
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| Kay ★ | On a committee to view land requested by Moore, 1690s. | 425 |
| Kerley ★ | A Kerley referenced by surname alone regarding meadow and a town-rate debt, 1650s — likely one of the two William Kerleys, not distinguished here. | 105 115 |
| William Kerley | An early elder figure of the Kerley family, active in land dealings across the founding decades; later served as highway commissioner, though his land was eventually seized for neglecting causeway repair and rates. | 009 012 015 024 029 050 051 052 069 073 075 082 094 105 108 118 226 |
| William Kerley, Jr. | Granted upland and acknowledged a free townsman in the 1640s-50s; later a Lancaster commissioner. | 029 079 080 091 118 136 |
| William Kerley, Sr. | Selectman; active in land exchanges and boundary work through the 1650s-60s, distinguished from his son of the same name. | 039 041 049 054 061 072 077 082 088 089 105 107 138 |
| Keyes ★ | Her meadow ordered to be laid out, 1670s — likely connected to the Keyes family, not further identified. | 285 |
| Elias Keyes | A cooper by trade, granted land and timber on condition of practicing his craft in town; active for decades hiring and being granted meadow, with his heirs' land confirmed after his death. | 163 164 177 178 184 185 210 217 218 229 370 385 391 426 |
| John Keyes | Referenced once as a boundary-meadow neighbor; no other mention. | 420 |
| King ★ | A Sudbury King-family member -- involved in bridge repair, meetinghouse-building, and meadow business -- whose given name was not recorded; may belong to Peter King, Thomas King, or another family member. | 091 109 111 425 426 427 |
| John King | Granted meadow in the Gulf; no further mention. | 167 |
| Joseph King | Referenced once as a boundary owner along a new highway. | 201 |
| Peter King | A constant civic figure for over three decades -- repeatedly selectman, constable, and surveyor of highways and fences, prominent in bridge and causeway work and the 1677 grant to build a second (saw) mill on Hop Brook -- and the town's chosen representative to the Council of Safety when the Glorious Revolution reached Sudbury in 1689. | 061 110 126 127 131 137 147 148 165 167 174 181 182 183 190 192 193 195 197 204 211 214 219 221 229 230 231 232 233 236 239 241 242 243 244 251 256 263 264 267 268 274 275 276 279 281 283 284 286 301 303 318 322 337 341 347 349 352 367 375 381 382 383 388 392 393 394 396 398 399 405 411 413 421 443 453 |
| Thomas King | An early selectman and surveyor of fences and highways, distinct from the later civic figure Peter King; bought a house and houselot from Mr. Noyes and dissented from at least one timber-grant vote. | 023 038 044 047 061 064 074 085 093 097 098 100 105 112 113 116 117 125 127 132 133 138 140 143 144 |
| Walter King | Dissented in a land-division vote; no other mention. | 114 |
| Thomas Knapp | Minor town officer who disbursed money for constable's staves and held the public ammunition stock. | 394 403 414 431 439 |
| Knight ★ | Granted meadow near Mr. Pelham's 50 acres; given name not recorded. | 013 |
| John Knight | An early landholder (first-division meadow, later additions of upland) whose grants are repeatedly cited afterward as boundary and origin points for neighboring land. | 006 011 024 025 043 046 052 119 173 184 |
| Richard Knight | Referenced once regarding land formerly granted to him. | 101 |
| Person | Notes | Leaves |
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| Robert Man | Constable and tythingman who enforced the swine and cattle orders on the west side and served repeatedly as fence surveyor. | 258 274 275 280 284 289 290 291 299 306 343 360 387 389 403 405 411 417 420 430 464 |
| Daniel Marshcraste | Referenced once within a fence-survey district; no other mention. | 220 |
| Thomas Mayhew | Appointed to set out Mrs. Glover's farm; no other mention. | 010 |
| Gregory Maynard | Hired Long Meadow jointly with Blandford; possibly a relative of the recurring civic figure Zachariah Maynard, though the record does not establish the connection. | 237 |
| John Maynard | An early landholder who became selectman, constable, and repeated surveyor of fences; handled a trespass complaint against Mr. Robert Procter and treated with carpenters over meetinghouse seating. | 006 009 014 024 025 027 043 058 061 069 071 076 077 078 079 081 097 099 105 106 108 113 116 125 127 128 131 132 137 143 146 147 150 155 174 179 183 203 209 |
| Jonathan Maynard | Appointed to serve in case of another officer's absence; no other mention. | 176 |
| Zachariah Maynard | A long-serving fence surveyor, constable, and collector on the east side, repeatedly hiring Long Meadow with Blandford; also served on the committee that treated with the poor townsman Jonathan Griffin and later inventoried his estate. | 213 217 220 228 231 244 262 268 277 280 281 282 283 286 292 301 305 323 328 332 333 341 342 359 382 389 390 394 403 404 406 408 411 414 417 419 422 429 430 454 457 465 466 |
| John Min | Referenced once as occupier within a field fence district; an unfamiliar, single-occurrence surname. | 174 |
| Moore ★ | A member of the Moore family -- taking invoices, viewing land exchanges, and serving as fence viewer and highway surveyor -- whose given name was not recorded; the family included Benjamin, Jacob, John, Joseph, and William Moore, any of whom this may refer to. | 091 098 143 406 430 443 453 454 |
| Benjamin Moore | Constable and collector on the west side, general surveyor of fences there, and a town creditor for mending the stocks and meetinghouse. | 244 281 283 284 291 292 304 309 310 312 389 391 396 400 402 403 404 411 413 430 439 445 453 454 461 |
| Jacob Moore | Selectman on multiple occasions and a frequent surveyor of fences across several circuits; also tythingman and keeper of the town's public ammunition stock. | 181 220 238 244 254 260 268 274 276 287 299 300 308 335 337 346 347 358 361 389 390 391 393 394 411 413 419 428 439 444 465 |
| John Moore | An early Sudbury purchaser (buying houses from Edmund Rice, Henry Rice, and John Stone) who became selectman and surveyor of fences and highways; also held a commission relating to Lancaster and helped arrange relief for Mrs. Hunt. | 009 024 025 039 047 048 054 057 058 059 061 069 070 072 076 082 089 090 092 094 096 097 099 102 105 112 113 116 117 118 127 129 138 139 141 185 |
| Joseph Moore | Constable and tythingman who served repeatedly as surveyor of fences across several circuits, and once volunteered to travel and preach in the pastor's absence. | 230 241 242 244 268 273 275 286 301 303 309 332 389 403 414 422 425 426 428 429 431 445 |
| William Moore | Surveyor who helped run the town's bound lines with Concord and served as tythingman and fence surveyor. | 145 168 174 176 180 183 204 208 244 287 316 320 |
| George Munnings | An early landholder (first- and second-division meadow) who signed several foundational town orders, including the meadow-allotment rule and the hog ordinance; later sold meadow to a Concord buyer. | 003 006 007 008 016 032 074 104 273 |
| Person | Notes | Leaves |
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| Richard Newton | An early landholder who took the oath of fidelity and held land near the town's new mill; part of the meadow later sold to Concord buyers. | 005 007 012 061 077 078 095 125 127 137 155 156 273 |
| Noyes ★ | A member of the prominent Noyes family -- granted land, chosen for selectman and other town affairs, and involved in boundary, relief, and meetinghouse business -- whose given name was not recorded; the family included Peter Noyes (both the elder and his civically dominant successor), Joseph Noyes, and Thomas Noyes, any of whom these mentions may belong to. | 012 023 032 049 060 062 064 082 087 089 091 094 096 099 101 104 112 114 116 120 122 127 128 129 130 139 197 322 403 445 |
| John Noyes | Took the oath of fidelity and contributed toward Widow Wedge's house, one of the town's poor-relief cases. | 061 460 |
| Joseph Noyes | The town's dominant late-century officer -- selectman, clerk, and treasurer for decades -- who sat on the standing committee to supply and pay the town's preacher and examined the accounts owed to the pastor; some later mentions may belong to a son of the same name. | 150 157 158 162 168 174 176 177 178 179 180 183 184 186 190 193 196 200 206 208 211 214 216 218 220 221 223 226 228 229 230 236 241 242 243 244 253 256 265 266 268 269 274 275 277 278 281 283 284 285 286 287 295 301 303 304 308 309 315 317 324 328 330 331 332 337 341 343 344 346 347 348 349 351 355 357 359 361 363 365 376 377 379 382 383 386 387 390 393 394 397 398 399 403 405 406 407 413 414 416 417 420 422 426 428 429 431 435 436 437 441 443 445 447 448 450 451 453 454 457 458 459 460 461 464 465 466 467 468 |
| Peter Noyes (elder, d. c.1664) | The town's founding elder, signer of nearly every foundational order (fencing, meadow allotment, wages and prices, highways, the cow common) and repeatedly selectman; gave meadow to his servant Thomas Plympton and to John Freeman, and died around 1664. | 003 004 008 009 010 011 013 014 016 017 018 021 022 026 027 028 029 033 034 035 036 037 038 041 042 044 045 047 053 054 055 057 060 066 067 069 070 071 072 074 075 089 093 094 106 107 112 123 125 127 138 141 142 150 152 156 161 162 |
| Peter Noyes (later) | A later, civically dominant Peter Noyes (distinct from the founding elder), owner of the town's corn mill, repeatedly selectman, town marshal and constable, and Deputy to the General Court; arranged a physician for Widow Hunt and collected money owed to the College. | 167 174 175 183 185 188 193 200 208 211 215 216 218 219 221 225 226 227 228 232 236 239 240 241 244 251 255 257 258 260 266 268 275 281 283 284 286 330 331 332 336 337 346 348 355 362 363 365 366 378 379 380 382 383 386 388 390 393 394 397 399 400 406 407 414 416 417 420 422 426 435 439 440 447 463 |
| Peter Noyes, Jr. | Voted on the 1650s sizing act and appears once as a town creditor; son of the later, civically dominant Peter Noyes. | 124 382 |
| Thomas Noyes | Surveyor and selectman across the 1650s-80s, appointed ferry keeper and author of the town's 1654-55 sizing act; also served as highway commissioner and helped settle the Watertown boundary encroachment. | 006 012 016 022 028 029 038 042 061 063 073 076 077 088 090 095 096 099 101 103 106 108 112 113 116 118 123 125 135 136 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 150 151 152 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 163 165 167 168 169 176 178 185 273 412 |
| Person | Notes | Leaves |
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| Edmond Pace | Chosen constable; no other mention. | 331 |
| William Parker | An early landholder (first- and second-division meadow) later cited as a boundary and origin point for neighboring grants. | 005 008 042 100 128 |
| Parmenter ★ | A member of the extensive Parmenter family -- selectman, town-marshal, and fence-survey business -- whose given name was not recorded; several Parmenter men were civically active, so this may belong to more than one of them. | 144 151 165 174 220 431 |
| Benjamin Parmenter | Fence surveyor and swine-order enforcer on the east side, tythingman, and meetinghouse-sweeper; also sheltered the Allen family when the wife was in childbed. | 289 293 308 330 333 346 358 400 402 414 430 459 461 |
| George Parmenter | Constable on the west side and town creditor who contributed to the gable-building fund. | 382 411 419 434 453 |
| John Parmenter (Deacon, later gen.) | A later-generation Deacon John Parmenter -- selectman, town marshal, and member of the Marlborough-road committee. | 137 146 149 156 416 443 |
| John Parmenter (generation unspecified) | Signer of nearly every early foundational town order alongside the elder townsmen, and later active hiring Ashen Swamp Meadow with Stanhope and Rosse; the record does not clearly separate this figure from other Parmenters of the same name across generations. | 003 004 009 011 016 017 018 022 029 033 035 044 060 065 067 069 071 078 083 089 093 094 095 128 131 132 133 143 151 212 217 228 231 233 240 241 244 262 267 268 279 281 286 289 300 307 314 341 342 347 358 360 389 394 400 406 409 419 420 428 430 435 459 |
| John Parmenter, Jr. | An early landholder who bought a houselot from Henry Prentiss and helped lay the Watertown boundary line and run Dunstar's farm line. | 005 008 012 023 044 047 059 064 075 086 091 110 112 115 124 127 133 138 246 273 |
| John Parmenter, Sr. | An early landholder, selectman, and general surveyor of fences who acted as voting agent for the absentee Pelham and Walgrave landowners; later referenced as grandfather in a land-grant record. | 005 007 015 016 040 043 044 047 064 066 072 076 082 087 089 094 096 097 101 105 106 115 116 120 122 124 127 144 240 246 |
| Joseph Parmenter | Granted land in the third addition and given liberty to dig clay and burn brick. | 011 207 244 |
| John Peckmer | Listed once as a delinquent ratepayer; no other mention. | 347 |
| Pelham ★ | A member of the Pelham family -- owing rates, disputing a debt, and needing assistance laying out the third addition -- whose given name was not recorded; the family included Edward, Herbert, and William Pelham. | 059 062 071 081 091 107 263 |
| Edward Pelham | Repeatedly listed delinquent on the town's rates, including the pastor's rate, and party to a money dispute with Samuel How. | 298 326 385 |
| Herbert Pelham | An absentee gentry landowner who voted by agent, held a large early land claim at Bridle Point, and arranged meadow assigned to Pastor Edmund Browne. | 008 023 079 101 124 125 136 166 |
| William Pelham | A major early landholder (over 30 acres of meadow and 50 acres of upland in the divisions) who voted by agent and later sold meadow to William Ward. | 006 007 009 013 015 043 065 067 069 074 075 078 079 080 081 087 101 124 138 169 |
| Pembletons ★ | Referenced once regarding a farm let to Thomas Gates; the manuscript reading itself is flagged elsewhere as a possible scribal slip. | 205 |
| Pendleton ★ | A member of the Pendleton family -- collecting the pastor's rate, finding a bull for the west side, and involved in a court matter over distrained goods -- whose given name was not recorded; likely mostly refers to the dominant Brian Pendleton. | 030 056 060 068 069 081 082 |
| Brian Pendleton | A major early landholder and gentry figure (over 50 acres of third-addition upland alone) who signed nearly every foundational town order alongside the elder townsmen and bought meadow from Henry Prentiss. | 003 006 008 010 011 012 013 016 017 020 021 022 023 024 028 032 033 034 035 036 037 039 040 043 044 045 046 047 049 053 054 055 056 063 075 101 136 |
| James Pendleton | Early landholder and freeman, active in town land affairs through the founding-era 1650s-60s. | 061 091 124 127 |
| Phipps ★ | Referenced once, as Clerk of the Court, in the early 1690s. | 437 |
| Thomas Pinion | A smith granted meadow and upland in exchange for his smithy work. | 146 |
| Plympton ★ | Referenced in bridge-repair work and the meetinghouse-building covenant in the 1660s, and later as constable paying the county rate in the 1680s; given name not recorded, and the earliest mentions occur in damaged, illegible text. | 109 111 415 |
| Abigail Plympton | Thomas Plympton's widow; witnessed a land grant as his relict not long after his death. | 245 |
| Peter Plympton | Chosen fence surveyor and fence viewer in the 1690s; served on a committee concerning Peter Haynes's garden plot. | 430 435 464 |
| Theo Plympton | Chosen for the Concord boundary perambulation in the early 1690s. | 429 |
| Thomas Plympton | A leading civic figure across the volume's span: selectman and constable in the 1660s-70s, and repeated surveyor of fences, highways, and the river. Explicitly noted deceased at file 231 (c. 1676) when replaced as highway surveyor, yet the name continues in active civic and land-exchange business through the 1690s (files 234-464) -- likely a second, younger Thomas Plympton (perhaps a son) whose mentions were not distinguished from the elder's during compilation. | 015 052 061 092 094 100 105 110 112 113 118 126 127 131 133 138 143 144 152 161 162 165 167 168 178 208 211 223 224 227 231 305 309 310 312 341 350 353 381 391 394 403 404 406 414 417 418 429 436 437 439 445 454 460 464 |
| Mary Pope | Warned out of the town in the early 1690s. | 431 |
| Christopher Portingal | Ordered to depart the town as a “vicious person,” under the town's standing 1665 expulsion order. | 318 |
| Henry Prentiss | Founding-era landholder with grants across several early divisions; sold land to Bryan Pendleton and Edmond Goodnow. | 005 007 012 014 015 018 023 040 042 043 059 079 107 122 |
| Person | Notes | Leaves |
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| Henry Rand | Recorded owing money on the town's and the pastor's rates in the late 1670s. | 298 326 |
| Kathern Read | Of Lanham; sold a meadow parcel to the town. | 189 |
| Thomas Read | Selectman and repeated constable from the 1660s into the 1690s, closely associated with the Lanham district, where he was also active in bridge and fence work. | 130 142 159 165 186 195 197 206 211 212 220 225 234 239 256 258 386 393 404 412 427 428 438 451 455 461 |
| Thomas Read, Jr. | Fence surveyor and tythingman, chosen repeatedly from the 1670s through the 1690s; his house burned and he was freed from rates as a result (file 338). | 241 287 299 306 338 428 438 455 464 |
| Thomas Read, Sr. | Constable and tythingman repeatedly from the 1670s-90s; one of the grantees of the 1677 Hop Brook saw mill, and later overseer of the Lanham bridge and causeway -- his wife was appointed a Lanham schoolmistress under the town's 1694 school arrangement. | 227 235 236 239 244 252 254 257 260 263 266 268 281 294 318 332 338 341 382 389 399 403 405 413 438 442 |
| John Rediat | Founding-era landholder in the second squadron; exchanged meadow with William Ward and was admitted a free townsman. | 015 052 063 076 085 126 137 139 174 |
| Rice ★ | Several unnamed Rice-family mentions spanning the volume, including an early widow's land grants and later constable/rate references -- the large Rice family (see individual entries below) makes these impossible to attribute to one person. | 005 007 013 027 280 431 |
| Benjamin Rice | Constable repeatedly and fence surveyor in the 1680s; served on the Jury of Trials. | 224 308 344 348 355 364 368 409 410 411 |
| David Rice | An outlying farmer who agreed to pay town rates; later rated to highway work. | 368 438 |
| Edmond Rice | One of the town's founding leaders: fence overseer and signer of its earliest orders, selectman repeatedly from the 1660s-80s, and the town's deputy to the General Court (paid six pounds for the service, file 122); also ran the town ferry and helped lay out land toward Henry Dunster's farm. | 003 006 008 009 011 012 013 014 018 020 022 024 025 032 035 037 040 041 048 049 051 052 053 054 055 056 059 067 070 079 080 082 083 084 086 089 090 091 094 098 099 105 106 116 122 126 128 136 286 408 411 415 428 443 461 |
| Edward Rice | Founding-era landholder; bought a houselot and meadow from Hugh Drury and upland from William Browne. | 061 075 107 126 136 346 |
| Ephraim Rice | Sought a land exchange with the town in the 1680s. | 386 |
| Henry Rice | A leading Corporal and selectman repeatedly across four decades (1650s-90s); commissioner to Cambridge, surveyor of Sudbury's outer lands, and among the committee that drafted thanks to the Reverend Elders at the volume's close. | 014 022 024 025 037 039 042 050 061 070 076 083 105 112 114 125 127 134 137 139 140 156 157 160 165 168 174 176 179 181 183 186 190 245 257 258 260 266 296 368 414 423 438 451 464 468 |
| Isaac Rice | Constable repeatedly in the early 1690s, including for the east side. | 426 433 436 441 446 452 458 |
| John Rice | Selectman repeatedly and eventually town clerk in the 1690s; also served many terms as tythingman and constable. | 245 257 259 316 320 347 357 362 363 389 391 393 411 413 416 426 429 431 432 435 439 443 457 461 462 466 |
| Jonas Rice | Contributed to the fund to build Widow Wedge's house, 1690s. | 460 |
| Jonathan Rice | Constable and later selectman repeatedly from the 1670s through the 1690s; also fence surveyor at the farm end. | 244 299 300 301 306 317 324 326 328 329 361 382 389 394 399 404 409 411 414 421 426 429 431 445 457 460 466 |
| Joseph Rice | Constable and later Ensign; bought oxen from Widow Wedge's family. | 254 366 382 |
| Mary Rice | A widow referenced repeatedly as a fence-district/highway boundary marker, and as disbursing constable-staff funds, in the early 1690s. | 394 403 414 428 |
| Matthew Rice | Constable repeatedly and later selectman; served on the new-meetinghouse committee (1686-87), though earlier bonded for having admitted Dennis Hedly as a tenant without leave. | 193 206 221 273 313 314 368 371 381 382 392 394 411 414 422 423 424 |
| Nathaniel Rice | Surveyor and land-committee member in the early 1690s. | 435 445 |
| Thomas Rice | Selectman and constable in the 1650s-60s; his land frequently used as a boundary marker in later fence-district descriptions. | 125 127 136 146 150 154 163 166 172 173 199 221 245 268 |
| Widow Rice (unnamed, of Thomas) | Referenced as the widow of a Thomas Rice, marking a fence-circuit boundary. | 286 |
| James Rosse | Repeatedly hired Ashen Swamp Meadow and helped enforce the swine order; his daughter (later Mary Gleason, a widow in the town's poor-relief record) is the subject of his complaint about her “necessitous state.” | 183 217 228 231 244 310 312 323 342 358 382 398 445 |
| Jane Rosse | Granted two acres of meadow at Strawberry Hill; the source itself notes doubt over this reading (possibly “Hans Ross”). | 178 |
| Samuel Rosse | Referenced as a family-inspection starting point and a fence-survey district boundary in the mid-1670s. | 257 268 |
| George Rowly | Took the oath of fidelity in the founding era. | 061 |
| William Rowly | Took the oath of fidelity alongside George Rowly, as the younger man ('junior') of the family. | 061 |
| Ruddocke ★ | Land-boundary references using the title 'Sargent Ruddock' without a given name; John Ruddocke is himself titled 'Sergent' in some of his own dated mentions, so these may be further references to him, left unmerged here for lack of certainty. | 137 146 173 184 |
| John Ruddocke | A founding-generation leader: repeated signer of the town's earliest orders, selectman several times, surveyor of fences, and kept the town book for a year (file 128); the project's sources treat this family as distinct from the similarly-named Rutter family. | 006 007 009 011 013 014 015 017 018 028 039 045 047 058 062 063 064 066 069 071 080 084 087 092 094 096 097 103 105 112 113 116 119 121 123 125 127 128 131 132 133 134 137 140 143 144 145 184 |
| John Rutter | One of the volume's most persistent civic figures: contracted (with others) to build the original meetinghouse frame and later helped underpin and repair it. Sergeant and general surveyor of fences for decades, selectman repeatedly, and a frequent lessee of common meadows across the 1660s-90s. | 020 026 027 028 057 058 061 069 080 104 106 108 112 113 119 120 126 138 139 145 148 149 158 168 175 176 182 186 195 196 198 199 200 203 207 208 209 210 211 212 214 217 220 221 229 231 232 254 262 268 269 273 275 276 281 286 287 301 308 312 324 331 341 343 359 361 365 375 379 382 386 390 402 408 414 417 428 430 431 437 |
| Joseph Rutter | Contributed to the meetinghouse gable-building fund, 1680s. | 411 |
| Thomas Rutter | Appointed gravedigger and bier-carrier in the 1690s; kept as a distinct entry from the dominant John Rutter -- Hudson's Index to Names independently lists a Thomas under the Rutter surname, supporting that this is a real, separate person rather than a title error. | 459 |
| Person | Notes | Leaves |
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| Samuell ★ | Lent money toward bridge repair in the 1680s; the source gives only the single word 'Samuell,' with no way to tell whether this was a given name or a surname. | 392 |
| Richard Sanger | A smith granted land for his shop and timber to build a house; removed to Watertown by 1649. | 061 066 071 077 078 079 146 |
| John Sheers | Rated to highway work on the Lanham bridge in the early 1690s. | 438 |
| James Sherman | The town's second settled minister, called during Rev. Browne's final illness and settled by 1680-82 with an annual maintenance of eighty pounds, funded partly by the town's purchase of John Loker's house and land. His unpaid rates and prolonged absence became a running dispute, still unresolved at the volume's close in 1695. | 242 245 249 250 251 261 275 278 283 290 296 298 301 316 324 362 363 364 397 399 401 407 414 420 455 464 467 |
| John Sherman | An Ensign referenced on a 1655 committee; not evidently related to the later pastor James Sherman. | 139 |
| Robert Slate | Granted land near the cranberry swamp in the founding era. | 017 |
| Smith ★ | Two separate unnamed Smith-family references: one concerning land, the other an elderly 'Goodman Smith' released from a highway-work debt -- not attributable to a specific named Smith. | 085 113 |
| James Smith | Fence surveyor and later tithingman in the 1690s; earlier listed delinquent on the pastor's rate. | 326 361 445 461 464 466 |
| John Smith | Among the 1677 grantees of the Hop Brook saw mill (with Peter King, Thomas Read Sr., John Goodnow, and Joseph Freeman); active in land matters from the founding era into the 1680s, several times dissenting from town votes. | 061 104 105 112 114 124 133 137 159 163 166 181 207 218 224 239 258 383 |
| Richard Smith | Founding-era resident; carried a payment to Mr. Webb and was later sued for rate arrears. | 061 088 104 |
| Thomas Smith | A Lieutenant; leased highway meadow and was paid as town creditor for killing a wolf, 1690s. | 258 383 417 429 444 459 460 461 |
| John Stanhope | Hired Strawberry Hill meadow with Parmenter, and was sent to Dedham to settle the new meetinghouse's accounts, 1680s. | 358 434 |
| Jonathan Stanhope | The town's long-serving general servant and officer, spanning five decades: swept and cleaned the meetinghouse, kept the old town pound, gathered rates, and served repeatedly as constable, fence surveyor, and Corporal. Also helped inventory the estate of the poor townsman Jonathan Griffin after his death, c. 1686. | 160 163 169 172 173 174 177 179 180 181 187 190 191 192 195 196 200 202 204 205 209 212 217 221 224 228 231 236 237 244 253 257 261 262 268 273 274 275 281 286 308 316 343 344 357 360 363 390 399 400 403 404 406 411 414 416 425 428 430 431 443 448 452 453 456 463 |
| Joseph Stanhope | Referenced in a fence-district boundary and among the contributors to a house-building fund for Widow Wedge. | 403 460 |
| Thomas Steevens | Town clerk and selectman repeatedly from 1667 onward (originally of Charlestown); served for decades until succeeded as clerk around 1682 by Capt. John Greene, whom the record suggests was probably his brother. | 153 154 159 174 178 179 182 186 188 189 190 192 193 194 195 200 203 206 207 209 211 212 214 216 217 226 227 228 229 230 231 233 236 237 244 251 252 253 258 260 261 274 282 353 |
| Daniel Stone | Selectman and constable repeatedly, mostly for the south quarter of town; an outlying farmer who arranged to pay town rates under that status. | 348 361 368 399 403 404 405 409 410 411 414 416 422 430 438 442 450 457 461 464 468 |
| David Stone | Sworn tythingman for the precinct formerly held by Henry Rice and John Bent; also fence surveyor for the northwest quarter. | 258 330 347 362 363 368 403 411 438 |
| John Stone | Received several early land grants and later sold his dwelling house to John Moore; appointed to attend town meetings and record orders. | 006 007 011 039 046 057 091 128 |
| Nathaniel Stone | Contributed to the meetinghouse gable-building fund and was rated for highway work. | 411 438 |
| Stratton ★ | Of Concord; ordered to hand in his bond to the town. | 208 |
| William Swift | Of Sandwich; borrowed money from Hugh Drury and defaulted on the debt. | 025 |
| Person | Notes | Leaves |
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| Thomas Walgrave | A landowner who received an upland grant from the town's minister and was later involved in a dispute over his right to vote in town affairs. | 074 101 124 125 263 |
| Daniel Walker | Contributed to a house-building fund for Widow Wedge. | 460 |
| Thomas Walker | Kept the town's ordinary (once advised to curb selling drink there) and taught writing and ciphering; also served as a messenger in town business, including officiating in Capt. John Greene's place as clerk. | 166 180 187 244 258 266 334 375 376 377 378 380 382 393 411 413 423 442 453 |
| Thomas Walter | Rated for highway work. | 438 |
| Ward ★ | Assigned to draw poles for a bridge. | 098 |
| John Ward | Took the oath of fidelity and served as surveyor of fences; received a lot in the third squadron's new-grant division. | 061 105 113 137 |
| Obadiah Ward | Took the oath of fidelity; dissented in at least one land-division vote and was referenced in several boundary descriptions, including a road terminus toward Marlborough. | 061 114 116 383 422 440 |
| Richard Ward | Chosen to help run the town's north bound line with Concord. | 174 176 |
| Thomas Ward | Constable; recorded paying funds to the Treasurer. | 455 |
| William Ward | A leading landholder and frequent signer of town orders across many decades, granted substantial acreage (including meadow 'in the gulfe' and Ridge Meadow) and repeatedly named in fence duty and boundary records. | 009 011 015 016 028 045 046 047 048 049 054 055 056 060 062 063 064 065 066 067 069 070 071 072 073 074 075 076 081 082 094 095 097 100 107 112 116 123 125 126 127 128 130 132 136 142 143 144 147 217 |
| John Waterman | Granted twelve and thirteen acres of upland in the third addition. | 012 |
| Webb ★ | Referenced only as the destination of a payment. | 088 |
| Wedge ★ | A widow excused from the country rate for poverty -- the recurring poor-relief case named 'Widow Wedge' in the town's records; also referenced as a boundary marker for a hired highway. | 362 417 |
| John Wedge | Chosen to help perambulate the Stow boundary line. | 429 |
| Thomas Wedge | Hired meadow bordering land held by Solomon Johnson and Roger Willis. | 218 |
| Whale ★ | Referenced in a fence-survey district description. | 268 |
| Elizabeth Whale | Edward Wright's blind mother-in-law; land was granted to Wright explicitly for 'cherishing' her in her need. | 341 |
| Philemon Whale | An early settler (a second-squadron lot-holder) who bought upland from Edmund Rice and went on to serve as selectman and surveyor of highways. | 034 037 040 041 061 070 071 107 125 127 129 136 146 150 157 163 172 174 175 204 221 |
| Thomas Whale | Took the oath of fidelity. | 061 |
| Wheeler ★ | Engaged to teach the younger John Goodnow to beat the drum. | 095 |
| Thomas Wheeler | Of Concord; fined for a timber trespass on Sudbury land. | 147 |
| Anthony White | Received grants across the first three land divisions; later sold upland and meadow, including to Robert Daniel and to Concord buyers. | 005 007 012 042 273 |
| John White | Voted in town affairs and was appointed regarding the corn-field fences; later excepted from paying his rate due to poverty. | 126 127 165 |
| Richard White | Received meadow grants in the first two land divisions. | 006 007 |
| Thomas White | A substantial early landholder (27 acres upland, plus meadow across several divisions) whose holdings were repeatedly cited as boundary references; also a signer of town orders. | 006 015 024 028 032 039 051 063 072 077 081 082 084 085 103 107 119 137 173 273 |
| Eliezer Whiting | Covenanted with the town to sweep the meetinghouse and dig graves. | 407 |
| Jonas Whitney | Listed among those owed rate interest. | 348 |
| Josiah Whitney | Listed as delinquent on his rate. | 347 |
| Benjamin Wight | Land of his referenced in laying out a new highway. | 318 |
| Nathaniel Wilder | Sought to buy a parcel of land; also referenced as a tythingman-precinct boundary and, later, a delinquent ratepayer. | 254 258 347 348 |
| Daniel Willard | A smith granted liberty to dwell in town and take pine wood, and later land for a smith's shop; also took six acres to break up common land. | 277 279 284 |
| Roger Willis | Served repeatedly as tythingman, constable (west side), and on the Jury of Trials; his family was at one point lodged at Widow Loker's. | 192 212 329 347 353 359 393 413 417 418 428 443 |
| Samuel Willis | Contributed to a house-building fund for Widow Wedge. | 460 |
| Winch ★ | Certified to warn town officers to take their oath. | 465 |
| Samuel Winch | Tythingman and constable (west side) repeatedly; also handled town disbursements including constable staves and the meetinghouse gable fund. | 202 330 346 394 411 423 438 443 457 459 |
| Witherell ★ | Received grants in the first two land divisions; later holdings cited as boundary references. | 006 007 025 046 |
| Wood ★ | Land of his referenced as having been sold to Cleines. | 157 |
| John Wood | A substantial early landholder across all three land divisions who took the oath of fidelity and was repeatedly appointed regarding fences and boundaries; exchanged land with Rice and How. | 005 007 011 015 045 048 058 061 100 106 107 116 125 126 127 138 167 174 181 228 244 443 |
| Wright ★ | An earlier, unrelated Wright widow (predating Edward Wright's own active years) referenced as a former possession-holder and land-record title; connected in one mention to the Blandford family by marriage. | 051 058 351 |
| Benjamin Wright | Accused more than once of infringing on town common land (claiming it as his grandfather's), though later himself served as constable and handled town accounts. | 372 378 386 412 438 443 450 453 458 |
| Edmond Wright | Granted a parcel at Hart Pond contingent on Sabesh (Browne) not holding it. | 229 |
| Edward Wright | Sergeant and later Lieutenant; the town's general surveyor of fences for the west side and a frequent tythingman, active from the 1670s into the 1690s; married into the Whale family and was granted land explicitly for the care of his blind mother-in-law, Elizabeth Whale. | 174 203 209 210 220 222 257 258 260 266 268 269 287 309 326 333 335 336 341 351 357 363 371 381 382 385 388 390 391 393 400 403 404 408 411 412 413 417 419 422 426 428 429 430 433 440 442 443 453 454 457 459 460 461 462 463 464 465 466 468 |
| Samuel Wright | Appointed to teach children reading and writing; also paid for new constable staves and granted land near the Wright and Browne holdings. | 385 442 453 |
Colony/county officials, outside treasurers, Concord meadow-buyers, out-of-town craftsmen, and a couple of modern editorial-apparatus credits, named in the record but not Sudbury residents.
| Name | Reason excluded | File numbers |
|---|
| Calib Hubbert | Braintree (sold town its bell) | 462 |
| Daniel Pond | Dedham framing contractor & son (not a Sudbury resident) | 372, 375, 385, 391, 411, 434, 468 |
| Dudley | Country's Agent (Mr. Dudley) | 288 |
| Edward Rawson | Colony Secretary | 010, 421 |
| Frances Dudley | Concord meadow-buyer | 445, 447 |
| George Howard | Concord meadow-buyer | 273 |
| Henry Bartholmew | Edm. Browne estate deed witness | 272 |
| Hosmer | Concord meadow-buyer (widow) | 445 |
| Humpfrey Parsons | Colony treasurer | 441 |
| J Addington | Colony Secretary | 423 |
| James Barnard (non-Sudbury, estate witness) | row-specific (see notes) | 272 |
| James Russell | Colony treasurer's son | 196, 205, 239, 280, 291, 298, 409 |
| James Taylor | Colony treasurer's proxy | 424, 446, 451, 452, 455, 456 |
| James Whetcome | Edm. Browne estate executor | 270 |
| Jeremiah Allen | Colony treasurer's proxy (per Jeremiah Allen/Allene) | 424, 446, 451, 452, 455, 456 |
| John Heyward | Concord meadow-buyer (millwright) | 445 |
| John Howard | Concord meadow-buyer (tailor) | 445 |
| John Hull | Colony treasurer | 238, 242, 256 |
| John Joyliffe | Edm. Browne estate executor | 270 |
| John Phillips | Colony treasurer | 423, 424, 425, 427, 434, 441, 447, 455 |
| John Stedman | Colony treasurer | 238, 242, 280, 290 |
| John Warrin | 1678 Marlborough-road committee | 441 |
| Jonathan Hubbard | Concord meadow-buyer | 445 |
| Jonathan Prisco | Concord meadow-buyer | 445 |
| Joseph Cook | 1678 Marlborough-road committee | 441 |
| Joseph Foster | Edm. Browne estate deed witness | 272 |
| Joseph Hayward | Concord meadow-buyer | 445, 447 |
| Joseph Howard | Concord meadow-buyer | 273 |
| Joseph Hull | Colony treasurer | 257 |
| Josiah Hubbert | Braintree (sold town its bell) | 463 |
| Mary Greene | Edm. Browne estate deed witness | 272 |
| Michael Perry | Colony treasurer | 410, 413 |
| Nathaniel Billings | Concord meadow-buyer | 273, 392, 394, 445 |
| Obadiah Wheeler | Concord meadow-buyer | 445 |
| Richard Russell | Colony treasurer (& son James) | 196, 197, 206, 239 |
| Rogar Toothaker | Edm. Browne estate deed witness | 272 |
| Samson Heyward | Concord meadow-buyer | 445 |
| Samuel Andrew | Colony treasurer | 314, 409, 410, 415, 433 |
| Samuel Andrews | Colony treasurer | 410 |
| Samuel Goffe | Edm. Browne estate executor / Marlborough-road committee | 263, 270, 441 |
| Samuel Nowbell | Colony treasurer | 409 |
| Samuel Phipps | 1678 Marlborough-road committee clerk | 441 |
| Susanah Miles | Concord meadow-buyer (widow) | 445 |
| Thomas Danforth | County Recorder | 139, 166, 264, 328 |
| Thomas Hinksman | Outside official (Maj., Chelmsford) | 447 |
| Thomas James | Edm. Browne estate deed witness | 272 |
| Willard | Outside official (Maj. Willard) | 139 |
| William Manning | Harvard College steward | 252 |
| J. Edw. Rawson | Edward Rawson, colony Secretary -- listed in progress.json's NON-SUDBURY PERSONS exclusion guidance ('Outside officials: ... Edward Rawson (Secretary)'); was mistakenly kept as a Sudbury person during Phase 2 grouping | 094 |
| Widow George | explicitly 'of Watertown' in the source (file 128: 'Widow George, of Watertown, sold meadow to Ruddocke') -- an out-of-town transaction counterparty, not a Sudbury resident, matching the non-Sudbury exclusion pattern already used for other towns' meadow-buyers/sellers | 128 |
| Mr. Gookin | Mr. Gookin (file 115, 'referenced, College money matter') is almost certainly Daniel Gookin, colonial magistrate and Harvard College overseer -- Hudson-Index's GOOKIN entry lists 'Major General', 'Capt.', Daniel, James, Samuel, matching this identification; an outside official, not a Sudbury resident, matching progress.json's non-Sudbury exclusion pattern | 115 |
| Betsey M. Powers | modern (1960s-era) Sudbury Town Clerk credited in an explanatory pagination note on file 031 (part of the volume's modern front-matter/editorial apparatus, like the 1965 LSRHS-typist acknowledgment on file 002) -- not a 1639-95 historical resident, same category as transcriber Sumner C. Powell already excluded | 031 |
| Mr. Manning | explicitly 'of Cambridge, College money accounts' (file 251) -- an outside Harvard-related money-matter contact, same category as Mr. Gookin | 251 |
| Mr. Richards | explicitly 'Country's Agent, bound for England' (file 288) -- matches progress.json's own non-Sudbury exclusion guidance ('Country's Agents Mr. Dudley & Mr. Richards'), missed in the original Phase 1/2 pass | 288 |
| Mr. Robert Procter | explicitly 'of Concord, accused of trespass burning pine' (file 097) -- an out-of-town party in a boundary/trespass dispute, same category as the Concord meadow-buyers already excluded | 097 |
| John Usher | 'Esq., Treasurer' (files 410,413) with no town given -- John Usher was a Massachusetts colonial Treasurer in this period, matching the large existing colony-treasurer exclusion group (Richard Russell, John Hull, John Stedman, etc.) | 410, 413 |
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