His birth is given as 1584 in Birch, Essex, England. His father was probably William Symonds, and his mother has a variety of names...Alice Moone/Moore, perhaps Roseblade. I have difficulty looking at all the various spellings, when they don't even sound the same...so we can just leave his parents in England, since they didn't immigrate to the colonies.
The following is quoted from an entry in 2012 by another Ancestry member, Frank Treanor.
Information of Mark Symonds
2 May 1638 – Made freeman in Ipswich
26: 7: 1648: – Court Held at Ipswich found Marke Symonds being sixty four years of age, discharged from ordinary training (source of date of birth)
1641 – Robert Andrews, George Giddings, Mark Symonds and Thomas Treadwell are chosen surveyors for this year.
2 Feb 1641 – On the Jury in Court held at Salem. He was also on the Jury of Trials 4 Nov 1645, and 30 Mar 1647.
1647 – Appointed admr. of the Estate of George Abott, late of Rowley.
24 Sep 1650 – On Grand Jury
His house and twelve acres of land lay on ye common fields on ye north side ye river, and a planting lot at Reedy Marsh.
16 Sep 1658 – (Ipswich Deed IV : 340) . . . Marke Symonds of Ipswich . . . for . . . fifty pounds . . . Have Granted . . . unto John PICKARD of Rowley … his pcell of ground . . . lyeing on the North Syd of the North River … at the end of his farme formarly sold to John Crose containeing seaven acres . . . with about halfe an acre bought of Robert Lord . . . having the land of Twyford WEST toward the Southwest … . . . Rec. June 9, 1680.
Ipswich Deed 16 Sep 1658
28 Apr 1659 – Marke’s will proved in Ipswich Court. After the death of Mary Chapman, his daughter, he left by will certain pieces of land for the benefit of his grandchildren, which caused their father, Edward Chapman, a great deal of trouble in his efforts to keep it and divide it equally among them in connection with his own property.
The last will & testam* of Marke Symons … I doe appoynt my beloved wieffe Johannah Symons to be sole executrix … I bequethe to my Daughter Susannah Ayres a fether bed & bo ulster w”* was her mothers wth y8 worst rugg. I bequeathe to Abigaill Pierce a fether bed … I bequeathe to John Warner junior one ewe lamb . . . after ye decease of my said wieffe my estate to be equally devided amongst our three daughters & y* children of my daughter Mary Chapman deceased . . . Also I apoynt my lo* bretheren Moses Pengrie & Edward Browne to be overseers of this my last will & testament. Dated 25 (2) 1659. Signed in ye prsence of George Smith, Aaron Pengry.
16 May 1659 – Inventory taken by Robert Lord and Robert Day. Mentions ” his dwelling house & bame with the ground about it. 18 acres of Land, 2 acres of meddow at Mr wintrips farme & 1 acre of salt marsh.”
Amount of estate £257.6.9.
Amount of estate £257.6.9.
9 May 1666 – Joanna’s will proven in Ipswich Court
I Joana Symonds of Ipswich . . . doe make and ordaine this my last will and Testament . . . And for my outward estate I . . . dispose God haueing given me two daughters which are maryed both and have children my will is equally to dispose of what estate I leave behind . . . unto my said two daughters and there children, i. e., namely unto my daughter Prisilla the wife of John Warner and to her children after her decease the one halfe of my estate And to my daughter Abigaill the wife of Robert Pearce the other halfe equally devided … I doe apoynt my loueing Sons in law John warner & Robert Pearce to be my executors . . . and doe declare this to be my last will and testament this sixt day of Aprill 1666. In presents of us William Goodhue, Robert Lord. Joana Symonds.
24 Nov 1659 – Ipswich Deed
wheras ther was an estate left by Marke Symonds unto his children after the death of his wife. And by agreem* mutually betweene the widdow & them to alow the widdow a certeine Sum yearly dureing her life and for to devyde the estate presently, and by agreement betweene themselves, the lands with some other small things fell to Edward Chapman (who maryed one of Marke Symonds his daughters) for his part of the estate, And the house being by the consent of all hands put into the hands of John Ayres to make sale of . . . This therfore wittnesseth that I John Ayres for . . . four score pounds . . . sell vnto my Brother Edward Chapman of Ipswich the dwelling house, barne & land about it . . . three acres be it more or less . . . wch was lately Marke Symonds … In wittness whereof … 24 November 1659 . . . John Ayers and John Baker
Recorded 1st of Aprill 1673. by Robert Lord
Ipswich in the Massachusetts Bay Colony … By Thomas Franklin Waters, Sarah Goodhue, John Wise, Ipswich Historical Society 1927
Mark Symonds' Ipswich Lot
_____________________________The remainder of the land in this square was owned originally by Mark Symonds. Hisexecutor, John Aires, sold a house and three acres, to Edward Chapman, son in law of Symonds, Nov. 24, 1659 (Ips. Deeds 3: 351). Chapman sold his son, John, a house and 10 rods on the corner, bounded by his land on two sides, Sept. 1677 (Ips. Deeds 4: 153). Samuel Chapman acquired the balance of the estate. Samuel sold an acre on the northeast side to his neighbor, Abraham Perkins, to enlarge his property, June 23, 1687 (7:152); an acre and house, fronting on the Street, to Samuel Wood, Dec. 2, 1687 (12: 119); and an acre and a quarter of land in the rear, to Thomas Lull Jr., Dec. 6, 1687 (8: 100). John Chapman sold his corner and house,his land increased now to 40 rods,to Caleb and John Kimball, April 6, 1719 (36: 22) and they sold the same to John Wood, on April 8, 1719 (35: 156). By this purchase John became next neighborto his father, Samuel Wood, and inherited his property (50: 253). John Wood’s widow, Martha, was allotted the northeast part of his estate, bounded by the Capt. Stephen Perkins’ land, and measuring 4} rods on High St., Nov. 19, 1752 (Pro. Rec. 331:126). Retire Bacon and his wife Margaret acquired possession, and sold a house and one and a half acres, the whole of the John Wood estate probably,to Isaac Martin,Aug. 7,1765(117:29). Martin sold to John Lakeman,Oct. 31, 1765(126: 43),the northeast corner of the property abutting on Nathaniel Foster, and another piece on April 19, 1773 (160: 159). It was owned by Nathaniel Lord, and by his son, Abraham, and the northwest part is still in possession of his heirs.
The source of this material is a compilation of several generations of people researching this ancestor, I believe. And most of it rings true. Mark did live in Ipswich, Essex, MA, and had the children of whom I am a descendent. He would be my nine times great grandfather, on my father's mother's tree.
His daughter Susanna Symonds Ayers (1617-1682) married Captain John Ayers (1620-1675)
Their son Nathaniel Ayers (1664-1731) married Amy (Annie) Cowell Sherburne Ferber Ayers (1657-1736)
Their daughter Ammi Ayers Swasey (1687-1783) married Samuel Swasey (1682-1739)
Their son Joseph Swasey (1714-1801) married Mary Bowers Swasey (1719-1823)
Their son Lt. Jarathmel Bowers Swasey (1752-1826) married Sarah Hellon Swasey (1757-1836)
Their son Alexander G. Swasey, Sr., Capt. (1784-1861) married Ruth Woodward (1788-1842) and she apparently didn't change her name when she married, as this is how it appears on her headstone.
Their son Alexander G. Swasey, Jr., Capt. (1812-1866) married Anna (Fanny) T. Zylstra Swasey (1815-?)
Their son, Alexander John Swasey (1853-1913) married Zulieka Granger Phillips Swasey (1858-1935)
Their daughter Ada Phillips Swasey Rogers (1886-1964) married George Elmore Rogers, Sr. (1877-1960)
Their son, George Elmore Rogers, Jr. (1914-1985) married Mataley Mozelle Webb Munhall Rogers (1917-2003)
And they were my parents.
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