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- Find A Grave Memorial 6615081; Birth ; Southwick Genealogy Topographical dictionary by Charles Edward Banks
(1937/81) of 2885 Emigrants to New England 1620-1650
He is listed from Tetnall Parish Staffordshire. (NOTE: added by Will Chapman a memorial to him indicates that he was born in the northern English County of Lancashire rather than in Staffordshire which is in the West Midlands.
Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 14 November 2017), memorial page for Lawrence Southwick (1598–1660), Find A Grave Memorial no. 6615081, citing Sylvester Manor Burial Ground, Shelter Island, Suffolk County, New York, USA ; Maintained by Thomas (contributor 46543873).)
The first of our Southwicks to settle in America were Lawrence, his wife, Cassandra and two children, John and Mary from England. According to the records, Lawrence came to America in 1627, returned to England and returned with his family in 1630 to Salem, Mass.
In 1639, the family was accepted into the First Church of Salem and granted two acres of land on which Lawrence established one of the first businesses of manufacturing glass and earthware. This land is described as being on the south side of Gallowa Hill where people were hung during the period of the Salem witchcrafts. (baptized 2 mo. 24th, 1639)
Lawrence and Cassandra were amongst the first to be arrested , tried, have their property confiscated and be put in prison by the Puritans for not attending their meetings and for attending meetings of the Friends (Quakers) They were banished from the colony and they sought refuge on Shelter Island. This happened in 1659, and Lawrence and Cassandra, being old people, could not stand the hardships. They died in early 1660 within three days of one another.( Lawrence first) Shelter Island lies in an inlet of the sea near Long Island. It was owned by Nathaniel Sylvester , who befriended the persecuted Quakers. It was with Nathaniel that Lawrence and Cassandra spent their last days. A monument has been erected on the Island paying tribute to Nathaniel Sylvester. On the steps of this monument is inscribed "Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick. Dispoiled, imprisoned, starved, whipped, banished. Who fled here to die This quote was taken from the Holders of Holderness by Charles Fredrick Holder LLD 1902
Sep 21, 1657 Christopher Holder and John Copeland , Quakers, attempt to address our people after Minister closed. They are secured until Monday then sent to Boston where they received thirty stripes and were imprisoned nine weeks. Samuel Shattuck, for interfering when Holder was apprehended was imprisoned at Boston till he gave bonds. Lawrence Southwick and his wife, for entertaining Holder and Copeland were confined in the same town.
Henry F. Waters, of Salem, Mass. says: " The names Southwick and Eastuic (Eastwic), found on our Salem records both suffered more or less change by slighting of the w; the former occasionally appears as Sethick, Southerick, Suderick etc and the later being rather fixed as Estick.
"In 1639 there were two acres of land set off for each of the persons Annanias Conkin, Obediah Holmes, and Lawrence Southwick; and there was granted to glass men several acres of ground adjoining to their houses. This was in the neighborhood of Aborn street and near String Water Brook" ( now 1881, Salem ans Peabody) Felt's Annals of Salem
Lawrence and his wife Cassandra went to Shelter Island, Long Island Sound, being banished under pain of death in 1659, and died there in the spring of 1660 from privation and exposure; his wife died three days after him.
Lawrence made his will at Shelter Island in 1659; his will proved in Salem in 1660 in which he mentions sons John, Josiah and Daniel and daughters Provided and Mary(who married Henry Trask) and some grandchildren
I, Lawrence Sethick, late of Salem in New England, now being at the house of Nathaniel Sylvester, on Shelter Island, being weak in body but of sound mind and memory, do make and ordayne this my last will and testament, tenth day of fifth month, 1659.
I first bequeath unto my sonne Daniel Sethick my dwelling house at Salem, with all the houses, orchards, gardens and appurtenances; and Gyle's lot, provided that John Burnell shall have a house lott on the ground at the further end of the orchard newly fenct in.
Item. My will is that lott which I had of Josiah Sethick shall return to him again.
Item. I give unto John Sethick the lott next to his owne.
Item. My will is that the great meadow which lyes at Ipswich River, fenct in, shall be divided Daniel Sethick and John Burnell equally.
Item. I give unto Samuel Burton forty shillings.
Item. I give unto John Burnell, if he stand faithful in the truth, two young steers and the first mare foal.
Item. I give unto Henry Traske Marshall's lott joining to his orchard, provided that Daniel may have liberty to mow a load of hay every year thereon.
Item. I give unto Mary Traske my daughter, wife of Henry Traske, ten pounds sterling.
Item. I give unto Deborah Sethwick and young Josiah, each of them fifty shillings sterling.
Item. I give unto Ann Potter forty Shillings, in she thinks beneficial for her.
Item. I give unto Mary Traske, daughter of Henry Traske, one good serge suit of clothes; and unto Sarah and Hannah each of them a suit of clothes.
I give and bequeath unto Samuel and Sarah, John Sethick's children, to each of them thirty shillings sterling.
Furthermore my will is that Daniel my sonne, and Provided my daughter, shall possess and enjoy all that which remains of my estate after debts and legacies paid, and my will above mentioned fulfilled, equally to be divided between them so that Daniel may have that part which belongs to husbandry.
Lastly my will is that in case my wife survives me shee shall be my executrix and keep all possessions during her life, and after her decease my will to be performed according as above expressed; and I do ordayne William Robinson and Thomas Gardner to be overseers of this my last will and testament.
Descendants of Lawrence and Cassandra Southwick of Salem, Massachusetts
1--LAWRENCE.
Salem, Mass., Shelter Island, N. Y.
He was a glass-blower and farmer.
1639. He was Freeman at Salem this year.
1639, 4, 24. He and his wife were baptized.
1639, 12, 11. At this date, grants were made by the town to the "glassmen," as follows: 1 acre to Ananias Concklin, and 2 acres each to Lawrence Southwick and Obadiah Holmes, to be added to their former house lots. Other allusions are made to the glassmen and glass houses at Salem; and the land granted to Lawrence Southwick is still called, as it was then, glass house field.
1639, 12, 16. His children John, Josiah, Daniel and Provided, were baptized.
1640, 3, 30. He and William Woodbury were deputed by a general town meeting to have the care of milch cattle and heifers that are like to calve this summer; and such bulls as are necessary for the herd, excluding all other dry cattle. They were to have care of the cattle from April 6th till November 15th; driving the cattle out when the sun was half an hour high in the morning, and bringing them in when the sun was half an hour high in the afternoon. Their compensation to be œ36; and the owners of three bulls that were to go with the herd, were to have 20s. apiece for the season, for the use of their bulls.
1641, 12. The General Court voted, that if the town of Salem loaned the glassmen œ30, they should be allowed it again out of the next rate; and the glassmen to repay it again "if the works succeed, when they are able." It is supposed that they manufactured the more common glass for domestic use, including the window glass such as was then used, diamond shaped; and perhaps the glass was cast. Pieces have frequently been turned up from the soil where the factory was situated; and specimens are preserved at the Essex Institute at Salem.
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