William Purrier

• Preferred Name: William Purrier^[1]
  
• Gender: M
  
• Death: 13 MAY 1676 in Southold, Long Island, New York^[1]
  
• Birth: 1599 in Olney, Buckingham, England^[1]
  
• Notes:

  William "Parryer," (Purryer/Purrier) age 36 sailed from London to NewEngland in 1635 with his wife Alyce, 37, and 3 daughters, Mary, 7, Sara, 5, and Katherine, 18 months. The ship was the "Hopewell." He came from Olney, Bucks Co., England with others, through the influence of Rev. William Worcester who had been deposed as a rector of that parish.("New York Settlers from New England," NEHGS "Register," Vol 55, p. 378). The family is listed on the passge list for the "Hopewell:" see "Register," Vol. 14, pg. 303.
  
  He originally settled at Ipswich where he had a house lot in 1638; was also at Salisbury. On March 12, 1641, a William "Purvier" was witness to a sale of land between Barnabas Horton of Ipswich and Moses Pengry of Ipswich, wherein Horton sold Pengry 6 acres of land in Ipswich, north of the river. William was a Freeman of CT in 1662 and eventuallysettled at Southold, Long Island.
  
  According to "Families of Ancient New Haven," Donald Lines Jacobus, pg. 996, "List of Officials in CT & New Haven Colonies 1635-1665," William Purrier was Deputy (Southold) to the New Haven Legislature in June, 1653, May, 1656 and May, 1661. He was Judge (Southold town), May, 1656. This information comes from New Haven Col. II 4, 169, 172, 403.
  
  Thomas Osman gave a deposition in 1658 in which he told the story of he, William Purrier, Thomas Reeve, James Reeve, Thomas Terill, WilliamSalmon, Thomas Benedict, Henry Whitney and others exploring for "sperrits resin" (turpentine) in "ye Chowan country" (North Carolina) in 1636/37. Upon failure of this adventure, these men in the following winter or spring settled on Hashamomuck Neck in the present town of Southold, Long Island. A copy of this deposition appears in the Southold Commemorative Book, 1636-1939. ("Genealogy up to 1800 of the Reeve Familyof Southold, Long Island, NY," Wesley L. Baker, 1970, page 340).
  
  William's will of 1671 names grandsons James and Isaac Reeve who wereliving with him and gives most of his lands to James; James' mother Mary Reeve, my daughter;" daughters Sarah Mapes, Martha Osman/Osmun andgrandaughter Mary Reeve who married Thomas Terril(l) and another grandchild, Mary Windes/Wyndes. His will was probated 13 May 1676. An inventory of his estate was taken in 1675, valued at 307 pounds, 15, per Inventories, Suffolk Co., LI Sessions Book #1, on Genealogies of Long Island Families CD, pg. 294.
  
  An abstract of the will of William Purrier from Abstracts of Wills, Vol. I, 1665-1707 follows:
  WILLIAM PURRIER, of Southold, "In perfect health of body," makes his grandson James Reeve, "now living with me," his sole executor, and desires him to take his mother, my eldest daughter Mary Reeve, into his family and provide for her during life. If she refuse, then he is to pay her 20 Nobles yearly. "I leave to my two youngest daughters, Sarah Mapes and Martha Osmun 20 pounds each." To "Isaac Reeve who now lives with me," two oxen. To my grandchild Mary Wyndes, one cow. To Thomas Terrill who married my grand daughter Mary Reeve, two acres of land by his dwelling house. To grand son James Reeve all my dwelling house, lands and meadows. Dated December 13, 1671. Witnesses Nicholas Eades, John Youngs. James Reeve is confirmed as executor May 13, 1676.
  
  [29787] [SOURCE] "Genealogy up to 1800 of the Reeve Family of Southold, Long Island, NY," Wesley L. Baker, 1970 & "The Founders of New England," NEHGS "Register," Vol 14, pg. 303
  
  "Genealogy up to 1800 of the Reeve Family of Southold, Long Island, NY," Wesley L. Baker, 1970 & "The Founders of New England," NEHGS "Register," Vol 14, pg. 303
  
  [29788] [SOURCE] "Genealogy up to 1800 of the Reeve Family of Southold, Long Island, NY," Wesley L. Baker, 1970
  
  "Genealogy up to 1800 of the Reeve Family of Southold, Long Island, NY," Wesley L. Baker, 1970
  
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• m. 1623 in Olney, Bucks, England

1. Mary Purrier, b. 1628 in Olney, Buckingham, England     d. in Mattituck, Suffolk, Long Island, New York
2. Sarah Purrier, b. 1630 in Olney, Buckingham, England     d. 1697 in Southold, Long Island, New York

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