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 1617 - 1699 (82 years)
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| Name |
WYMAN Francis |
| Birth |
2 May 1617 |
Westmill, Hertfordshire, England  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Baptism |
24 Feb 1619 |
Westmill, Hertfordshire, England [2] |
| Immigration |
1630 [1] |
| Occupation |
30 Dec 1644 |
| Tanner |
| _UID |
DA130676F9C7D6118A06444553540000D0F0 |
| Death |
28 Nov 1699 |
Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts |
| Burial |
30 Nov 1699 |
Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts [3] |
- (Old Burial Grounds. DEATH: 'MEMENTO MORI' 'FUGIT HORA' 'Here lyes ye body of Francis Wyman
aged about 82 years, died November 28th, 1699 [an error of 1 or 2 years]
'The memory of ye just is blessed')
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| Notes |
- Proof of the lineage of Francis and John Wyman of Woburn is from Water's
'Genealogical Gleanings in England' and from Threlfall's 'Fifty Great
Migration Colonists to New England & Their Origins'. The English Wymans
are well covered in 'The Wymans/Whymans of Hertfordshire' by Christine E.
Jackson of Amberly, Herts, England.
The two Wyman brothers Francis and John were seventeen and fourteen in
1636 and so probably came over with their older uncles, Samuel and Thomas
Richardson. The first definite record that we find of the Wyman brothers
in New England is when the town order of Charlestown Village (Woburn)
were signed in 1640; which the Richardsons and Wymans all signed. By that
date the Wymans were 21 and 18. John Wyman the brother of Francis was
made a freeman 26 May 1647 at age 25, and Francis a freeman 1657. Later
in 1658 Francis Wyman Sr. in his will said '.. do give and bequeth unto
my two sons Francis Wyman and John Wyman which are beyound sea ten pounds
a piece of Lawful English money to be paid unto them by mine executor if
they be in want and come over to demand the same.' The Wymans built on
what became Wyman St. in Woburn, and by 1666 they had also built country
farms in what is now Burlington, a few miles north, on what became the
Billerica boundry.
He settled with each son at majority and in his will left his remaining
estate to his youngest son Benjamin. (William had already inherited land
and the homestead). Abigail is also mentioned in his will
Overlooked by many is the fact that a grant of land was made in Woburn on
25 Feb 1679 to a John Wyman, a wheelwright. This was not Lt. John Wyman
the brother of Francis, but rather the son of Thomas and Ann (Godfrey)
Wyman and hence the nephew of the Wyman brothers. This John was know and
Sergant John Wyman.
Their is also found in Boston a tailor named Thomas Wyman or Wayman who
was in the 1675 war against the Narragansett Indians. He is believed by
some to be the son of the brother Richard Wyman, hence another nephew of
Francis and John Wyman.
He settled with each son at majority and in his will left his remaining
estate to his youngest son Benjamin. (William had already inherited land
and the homestead). Abigail is also mentioned in his will
Francis1 and John1 Wyman became tanners in Woburn, perhaps having learned
the craft in England (Buntingford, two miles north of Westmill, was a
tanning center in Hertfordshire) By 1641 they were granted lots for 6d
per acre near the center of Woburn at the present Main and Wyman Streets
near Central Square. Francis' house has not been recorded, but John's
house was a two story frame house 34 by 26 feet with 13 windows having 40
rods of land adjoining. Nearby on Wymans' Lane were the tanning vats, a
barn, tan house, currying shop and sheds. Their tanning business carried
on until 1768 when it was sold to David Cummings. The water needed for
tanning was diverted from a brook which was done away with when the
nearby Middlesex Canal was built about 1800. Woburn became the tanning
center of the country.
A grant of 500 acres in what became the town of Billerica was made in
1648 to the Rev. Henry Dunster the first president of Harvard College.
This he sold in 1655 to Francis and John Wyman for £100 sterling. Because
of Dunster's Baptist leanings, he was removed as the president of Harvard
College and apparently needed some cash. After some political maneuvering
the pending town of Billerica was persuaded to lay out the grant which
was entirely within the new town. The grant was on the border of Woburn,
adjacent to where the Wymans already had land.
In 1657 The Woburn selectmen agreed to exchange 94 acres of land the
Wymans already possessed in the town for an equal amount '_adjoining to
their land at Billerica_.' Again, in 1661 Francis exchanged with the town
of Woburn '_a parcel of land lying in the treasury_(for land at)_his farm
next Billerica.' The same year Billerica granted 70 acres in the same
general area to the Wyman brothers which was laid out and the return made
in 1663.
In 1665 the Wymans purchased for the sum of £50 the Coytmore grant of 500
acres which was to be laid out in Woburn. The Woburn selectmen attempted
to have the grant laid out elsewhere, but the General Court in 1666 had
it laid out at this time when the Woburn-Billerica boundary was being
settled. It was stated that the grant was to be laid out '_in Woobourne
bounds, next adjoining to the land and houses of the said Waymens,
apprehending it to be most convenient and profitable for them so to lye.'
Interestingly, the deed of sale is witnessed by Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck, a
Martha's Vineyard Indian who was the solitary Indian to have graduated
from Harvard College at this time.
In 1667 Francis, John and eleven other citizens of Woburn were hauled
before the County Court for publicly manifesting contempt for the
ordinance of baptism and for attending illegal assemblies of the
Anabaptists. Nothing much happened and both were later active in the
local church, although Francis in his will left small bequests to two
elders of the Baptist Church in Boston.
The country house of Francis built sometime before 1666 still stands in
Burlington and is now owned by the Francis Wyman Association. It is an
eight room, two story, center chimney house with attic and half-cellar.
Nearby in Billerica is the Amos Wyman cellar hole, the site of John
Wyman's original farm house, a house to which Samuel Adams and John
Hancock retreated on 17 April 1775 when they fled Lexington. Elizabeth
(Pierce) Wyman, the wife of Amos is said to have fed her visitors boiled
potatoes, pork and bread instead of the salmon which her guests had
planned to eat at the Lexington parsonage. Hancock is reported to have
sent a cow to his hostess at a later date in appreciation of her
hospitality.
In 1640 500 acres of land in Woburn (now Burlington) was granted to Mr.
Thomas Coytmore and was subsequently sold by Joseph Rock to Francis and
John for £50 in Oct. 1667. They also owned a large farm in West Woburn
extending into Billerica adjoining the Coytmore grant.(2)
'Billerica, 19.9m.1661. At a Towne Meeting, The towne do grant to
ffrances Wyman & John Wyman that parcell of land that lyeth betweene
Woburne line & the former that they purchased of Mr. Dunster, which is by
estimation four score acres, more or less and is bounded on the South or
South East with Captaine Gookins farme line.'
'Whereas John Wright, Isaac Cole, ffrancis Wiman, John Wiman, ffrancis
Kendall, Robert Peirce, Matthew Smith & Joseph Wright, members in full
communion with the Church of Christ at Woburne, were presented by the
Grand Jury of the County of Middlesex in New England at the Court in
October last (1671) for refuseing communion with the Church of Woburne in
the Lord's Supper, and rejecting the counsell of neighboring churches,
and all other measures for healing the disorder and scandall thereby
occasioned: This Court having heard their severall answers, wherein they
pretend and alledge that the grounds of their withdrawing are sundry
scruples in poynt of conscience, not daring to partake with the church
for fear of defilement by sin, giving some reasons of their
dissatisfaction, which not being satisfactory to the Court, who are
sensible of the scandall thereby redounding to our profession, and
considering the directions given by the word of God and laws of this
Colony, requiring the attendance of all due meanes for preserving the
peace and order of the churches in the wayes of godliness and honesty,
that so all God's ordinances may have passage unto edification, according
to the rules of Christ.
This Court do therfore, upon serious consideration of the whole case,
order that the respective churches of Charlestown, Cambridge, Watertown,
Redding & Billerica be moved and requested from the Court, according to
God's ordinance of communion of churches, to send their elders and
messengers unto the church of Woburn the ( ) day of March next, where the
brethren that were presented as above said are ordered and required to
give a meeting together with the church there, and shall have liberty
humbly and inoffensively to declare their grievances, and the church also
to declare the whole case for the hearing of their proceedings: And after
the case is fully heard by the said councill, they are to endeavor the
healing of their spirits, and making of peace among them, for the issuing
of matters according to the word of God, and to make returne of what they
shall do herein to the next county Court to be held at Cambridge: And the
Recorder of this Court is ordered seasonably to signify the Court's mind
herein to the several churches above named. It is ordered that the
Court's final determination in the above named case be respited, untill
they receive the councill's return, and the above named persons that were
presented by the Grand Jury are ordered to attend at the next court at
Cambridge.'(3)
These people of Woburn were prosecuted before the Middlesex County Court
Dec. 1671 for contempt for the ordinance of Infant Baptism as
administered in the church of Woburn and for withdrawing from that church
and attending the assemblies of the Anabaptists which was not allowed by
law. John Wyman seemed to have been convinced of the 'error' of his ways
and was admitted back to the church in Woburn and took an active part in
the settlement of Rev. Jabez Fox as a colleague of Rev. Thomas Carter in
1697. In his will 10 March 1683/4 he gave them 40/ each calling them his
'Reverend Pastors'. Francis however always retained his partiality for
the Baptists for in his will 5 Sept. 1698 he gave to two elders of the
Baptist Church in Boston, Mr. Isaac Hull and Mr. John Emblen 20/ each.
Francis did however remain in communion with the church in Woburn.
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| Person ID |
I10272 |
Old North Yarmouth, Maine |
| Last Modified |
11 Feb 2003 |
| Father |
WYMANT Francis, b. 1594, Westmill, Hertfordshire, England d. Abt 15 Sep 1658, Westmill, Hertfordshire, England (Age 64 years) |
| Mother |
RICHARDSON Elizabeth, b. 13 Jan 1593/4, Westmill, Hertfordshire, England d. Bef 22 Jun 1630, Westmill, Hertfordshire, England (Age < 36 years) |
| Marriage |
1 May 1617 |
Westmill, Hertfordshire, England [2] |
| Family ID |
F2210 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
REED Abigail, b. Feb 1634, England d. 30 Nov 1699, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 65 years) |
| Marriage |
2 Oct 1650 |
Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts [1, 4, 5, 6] |
| Children |
| | 1. WYMAN Judith, b. 29 Sep 1652, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 22 Dec 1652, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 0 years) |
| | 2. WYMAN Francis, b. Abt 1654, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 26 Apr 1676, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 22 years) |
| + | 3. WYMAN William, b. 22 Feb 1656, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. Abt 1705, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 48 years) |
| | 4. WYMAN Abigail Reed, b. Abt 1659, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 17 Sep 1720, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 61 years) |
| | 5. WYMAN Timothy, b. 15 Sep 1661, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 9 Jan 1709, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 47 years) |
| | 6. WYMAN Joseph, b. 9 Nov 1663, Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 24 Jul 1714, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 50 years) |
| | 7. WYMAN Nathaniel, Sergeant, b. 25 Nov 1665, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 8 Dec 1717, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 52 years) |
| | 8. WYMAN Samuel, b. 29 Nov 1667, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 17 May 1725, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 57 years) |
| + | 9. WYMAN Thomas, b. 1 Apr 1671, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 4 Sep 1731, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 60 years) |
| | 10. WYMAN Benjamin, Captain, b. 25 Aug 1674, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 19 Dec 1735, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 61 years) |
| | 11. WYMAN Stephen, b. 2 Jun 1676, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 19 Aug 1676, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 0 years) |
| | 12. WYMAN Judith, b. 15 Jan 1678/9, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. Nov 1744, Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 65 years) |
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| Family ID |
F2215 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
29 Mar 2020 |
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| Event Map |
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 | Marriage - 2 Oct 1650 - Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts |
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| Death - 28 Nov 1699 - Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts |
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| Burial - 30 Nov 1699 - Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts |
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| Sources |
- [S6] Book-North Yarmouth-Old Times of North Yarmouth, Maine, p.661, ME 974.1 CO.
- [S368] Westmill Parish Register.
- [S369] Transcript of Epitaphs in Woburn First and Second, p. 11.
- [S370] Book-VR Woburn, MA, p. 314.
- [S377] Book-New England Marriages 1700, p. 844.
- [S379] Book-Reed-Descendants of Reade or Reed, p. 3.
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