Capt. James Minot

1653 - 1735  (82 years)

• Name	James Minot
  Prefix	Capt.
  Birth	14 Sep 1653	Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	20 Sep 1735	Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [1, 2, 3]
  Burial	Hill Burying Ground, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts   [2]
  Person ID	I15718	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	22 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	John Minot,   b. Bef 10 Apr 1626   d. 12 Aug 1669, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age > 43 years)
  Mother	Lydia Butler,   b. Abt 1627   d. 24 Jan 1667 (Age ~ 40 years)
  Marriage	19 May 1647  [2, 3, 4, 5]
  Notes	They were married by Governor Dudley.
  Family ID	F9608	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Rebecca Wheeler,   b. Abt 1666, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 23 Sep 1734, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age ~ 68 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1684  [1, 3]
  Children	+ 1. Col. James Minot,   b. 17 Oct 1694, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts d. 6 Feb 1759, Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts (Age 64 years)
  Family ID	F9604	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Jul 2018

  
  

• Notes

  Graduated Harvard College, 1675. He studied divinity and physic. He preached often for about ten years, but was never ordained. His epitaph: Here is interred the remains of James Minott, Esq., A.M. an Excelling Grammarian, Enriched with the Gift of Prayer and Preaching, a Command Officer, a Physician of Great Value, a Great Lover of Peace as well as of Justice, and which was His greatest Glory, a Gent'n of distinguished Virtue and Goodness, happy in a Virtuous Posterity, and living Religiously, Died Comfortably, Sept. 20, 1735, AEt. 83.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1604] Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts, Including Waltham and Weston by Henry Bond. Second edition. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1860. [S1621] Lemuel Shattuck, "The Minot Family." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 1:171, Apr 1847. [S594] The Ancestry of Eva Belle Kempton 1878-1908, Part III: The Ancestry of Henry Clay Bartlett 1832-1892 by Dean Crawford Smith; edited by Melinde Lutz Sanborn. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2004. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011. [S2130] The History of Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County, Massachusetts by Charles Edward Banks. Boston: George H. Dean, 1911.