Distracted but back to Grangers, Poors, and Farnums

I admit, I've been happily following those green leaves (hints) over on Ancestry, and also have succumbed to their sending me emails of new additions to the people on my trees.  Oh my goodness, I'd never heard of some of them, but then there were others...and so I've gotten distracted. Remember I've got around 3000 people on my three trees. Sorry.

Now back to the Swasey family roots.  There were the Adams and Grangers, at whom we've recently looked.  Now let's follow some of the wives' branches and see what we can find.

Martha Poor Granger  1654–1723

Birth 4 NOVEMBER 1654 • Andover, Essex, MA

Death 4 DECEMBER 1723 • Andover, Essex, MA

Martha Poor's father Daniel, has 30 hints that I have to weed through before I can tell you about him. He was one of those early immigrants to Essex County MA.

Martha's mother was Mary Farnum Poor (we've heard of the Farnum (Farnham) name before in the Andover area.  Mary Farnum Poor only got 5 hints on her name, so let's see what we can find about...

Mary Farnum Poor  1628–1713

Birth 13 JULY 1628 • St Nicholas, Rochester, Kent, Eng

Death 3 FEB 1713-1714 • Andover, Essex, Mass

Mary was born in England, the eldest of the Farnum children who came with their parents on the ship "James" to Boston in 1635.  Her parents were Ralph and Alice Farnum.  (On checking with Wikipedia, there were several ships named "James" during the reign of King James.)

Martha Poor Granger's father was:

Daniel Poor Jr  1624–1689

Birth 1624 • Marlborough, England

Death 8 JUN 1689 • Andover, Essex, Mass

Mary and Daniel married Oct. 20, 1650.  He also had been born in England, and they married in Andover, MA. 

He was a "youth, aged fourteen years, whose name is on the list of passengers in the ship "Bevis," from Southhampton, England, in 1638, and his name is there written Dayell Poore, that he came with his sister Alee, or Alice, aged twenty years, and his brothers, Samuel, aged eighteen years, and John, all under the designation of servants of Richard Dummer." 
From:
GENEALOGICAL AND PERSONAL MEMOIRS - Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts. PREPARED UNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION Of WILLL\M RICHARD CUTTER, A.M, VOLUME I.NEW YORK, LEWIS HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1908

To continue:
" In 1644 he became one of the original settlers of Andover and spent the greater part of his life in that town, where he acquired a large estate in lands and other property, which at his death in 1713 was appraised at eight hundred pounds. He also became prominent in town afifairs, held several important offices and served as selectman eight years. His farm and home in Andover were on the east side of Shawshin river, near where now stands the station at the junction of the Boston & Maine and Essex railroads. Daniel Poore married Mary Farnum, who bore him eleven children."

"One of their sons, Daniel Poore, III, born in Andover, Massachusetts. 1656, lived on the old homestead in that town. He married Mehitable Osgood, and by her had nineteen children."

Daniel Poore Jr (the father) left a will giving land to his eldest son.  But his will also mentions daughter Martha, "to whom he gave 20 acres of land."  As several of his other daughters are specifically mentioned as unmarried, it must be assumed that Martha was married when he wrote his will in 1689.  And this is substantiated in other records, that she married Captain John Granger in 1679.

Martha, it seems, was listed in the Andover Births Record as Matthew, a daughter, (sic) on her birthdate of Nov. 4, 1654. and as "d. of Daniell Pore, Jr and Mary."  

But Matthew isn't mentioned in the will of his father though all the other children are.   

(So now I'm checking the 18 hints on Matthew Poor's name at Ancestry.  He has no records apparently, besides those which Ancestry has devised, no death date on Find a Grave, no marriage, no children, and the unfortunate copying of non-information over and over again, as a result of being listed as a daughter at this birthdate.  Half of the listings for his name are actually for his sister Martha, or mother, Mary.

So I am thinking at this point that Martha was the only one born on that date (since there are many records with her birthdate corroborated, like marriage, death, etc.) and perhaps she would have been named Matthew if she had been a boy.  Or perhaps there was a twin who died at birth.  Who knows.  For now I'm marking Matthew as just listed as "d" under his name.  If you do count a Matthew as a real person, then there were 11 children born to Daniel and Mary Poor.  Otherwise it comes to just 10. 

See, I just spent an hour doing all that merry-go-round which didn't answer many questions and gave me more than I started with.

But I've neglected to post anything today so far, so here it comes...out there world, on the World Wide Web!
PS - I am so annoyed with Blogger for not keeping any of the font choices here, but going tiny tiny font, no matter how many times I try to change it.  I want to be able to read this sometime in the future, and maybe someone else might as well!