PELHAM, Herbert (c.1600-74), of Cambridge, Mass. Bay, New England, and Mount Bures, Essex.

Family and Education

b. c. 1600, 1st s. of Herbert Pelham of Swineshead, Lincs. and his 1st w. Penelope, da. of 2nd Baron de la Warr (Thomas West†).Lincs. Peds. ed. A.R. Maddison (Harl. Soc. l-lv), iii. 767-8; J.L. Chester, Herbert Pelham, his ancestors and descendants [1879], 5. m. (1) lic. 13 Oct. 1626, Jemima (d. 1638), da. of Thomas Waldegrave of Mount Bures, 2s (1 d.v.p.) 3da;London Marr. Lics. ed. Foster, 1038; Lincs. Peds. iii. 768; Vis. Essex 1552, 1558, 1570, 1612 and 1634 (Harl. Soc. xiii-xiv), i. 122, 310, 515; Morant, Essex, ii. 267; Chester, Herbert Pelham, 6-7; Al. Cant. ‘Waldegrave Pelham’. (2) bef. Nov. 1640, Elizabeth (d. 1658), da. of Godfrey Bossevile* of Gunthwaite, Peniston, Yorks. and wid. of Roger Harlackenden (d. 1638) of Mass. ?3s (1 d.v.p.) 3da.Lincs. Peds. iii. 768; Chester, Herbert Pelham, 7-8; Josselin, Diary, 432. suc. fa. 1624.Lincs. Peds. iii. 767; Chester, Herbert Pelham, 6. d. 30 June 1674.Josselin, Diary, 577.

Offices Held

Military: Military Coy. of Mass. 1639–40.O.A. Roberts, Hist. of the Military Co. of the Massachusetts (Boston, Mass. 1895–1901), i. 85.

Colonial: jt. surveyor of the highways, Camb. Mass. Bay 13 Nov. 1643–12 Nov. 1645.The Recs. of the town of Cambridge (formerly Newtowne) Mass. 1630–1703 (Cambridge, Mass. 1901), 49–52. Asst. Mass. Bay colony, 14 May 1645-May 1650.W.H. Whitmore, The Mass. Civil List for the Colonial and Provincial Periods 1630–1774 (Albany, 1870), 22; Jnl. of John Winthrop, 574, 763. Jt. commr. for united colonies of New England, Mass. 1645–7.Whitmore, Mass. Civil List, 28; Jnl. of John Winthrop, 621. Townsman, Camb. 12 Nov. 1645–9 Nov. 1646.Recs. of the town of Cambridge, 51, 56–7.

Academic: treas. Harvard Coll. Camb. Mass. Dec. 1643-bef. May 1650.Harvard College Recs. (Publications of the Colonial Soc. of Mass. xv), pp. clvi-clvii, 16, 40, 175, 181; Jnl. of John Winthrop, 490.

Central: asst. corporation propagating gospel in New England, 27 July 1649.A. and O.

Local: commr. assessment, Suff. 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652; Essex 9 June 1657. 7 Jan. 1651 – bef.Oct. 1660A. and O. J.p.; Suff. 8 July 1656–?Mar. 1660.C231/6, pp. 205, 340; Essex QSOB ed. Allen, p. xxxviii; A Perfect List (1660). Commr. ejecting scandalous ministers, Essex 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. militia, 14 Mar. 1655, 26 July 1659, 12 Mar. 1660.SP25/76A, f. 15v; A. and O. Jt. treas. maimed soldiers and charitable uses, Essex ?-1656.Essex QSOB ed. Allen, 80. Commr. sewers, River Stour, Essex and Suff. 4 July 1664.C181/7, p. 278.

: Mass. Bay, New England and Essex., Mount Bures.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

PELHAM, Herbert (c.1600-74), of Cambridge, Mass. Bay, New England, and Mount Bures, Essex.

Will

1 Jan. 1673, pr. 30 Mar. 1676.PROB11/352/9; Chester, Herbert Pelham, 8-10.

Estates

probably inherited lands at Swineshead, Lincs.; owned land at Cambridge and Sudbury, Mass.;Recs. of the Gov. and Co. of the Massachusetts Bay in New England ed. N.B. Shurtleff (Boston, Mass. 1853-4), i. 271, 292; Recs. of the town of Cambridge, 33, 67-8. owned land at Alphamstone, Essex;Morant, Essex, ii. 267. owned land in Co. Cork.PROB11/352/9.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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