Source Text:

Name: John Chadwick Sr.
Birth Date: 19 Apr 1601
Birth Location:
Death Date: 1 Dec 1680 (aged 79)
Death Location:
Burial: Bell Rock Cemetery
City: Malden
County: Middlesex County
State: Massachusetts
Country: USA
Memorial ID: 93820957

married Joan Shepard abt 1645 Malden, Middlesex, MA. Children: Sarah, Elizabeth, John, James, Thomas, Samuel, Hannah.
note: John and Joan Chadwick may not be in Bell Rock Cemetery. A member of FAG visited and spoke with the caretaker who told her that these two Chadwicks are not there. However there are numerous missing and overturned stones. There is no question that John and Joan both d. in Malden, just a possibility that they are not in Bell Rock.∼
John was born in either Portchester or Rochdale, Lancashire, England to Alexander Chadwick and his wife.

John married Joan prior to 1646 when their first child was born in Middlesex County.

He was admitted Freeman on May 14, 1656.

John's will:
1st Day 10th month 1680, I John Chadwick senior of Malden... my will is that my two sons John and James shall have two thirds parts of all my land and that they shall have their shares on that side which is next to their own land.
My son Samuel shall have the other third part to the Eastward with the house and orchyard.
James and Samuel shall each of them pay five pounds unto my son John. In case any one of the said sons should die leaving no issue, the land of his share shall be equally divided between the two sons that are surviving.
I give unto my daughter Hannah all my cattle, bedding brass, iron and pewter, in a word all my moveables both within doors and without.
After debts and funeral & sickness expenses are discharged out of the profits or income of my land orchyand and house that the whole profit of all my land orchard and house shall be .. said daughter for the space of four years.
But in case she should decease and have no issue surviving then my will ... all that remans of her portion shall be equally divided between my three sons John, James and Samuel. more over I bequeath unto my three daughters that are already married by way of legacy ten shillings apiece to be paid by my executor.
I constitute my son John for my executor and I make ensig Thomas Lynde and Thomas Skinner the overseers of this my will.
witnesses ?? Jenkins & Samuel ???

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Family Members
Parents
Alexander Chadwick 1558–1624
Spouse
Joan Shepard Chadwick 1624–1674
(m. 1645)
Children
John Chadwick 1651–1707
James Chadwick 1653–1690
Thomas Chadwick 1655–1731