The English ancestry of Reinold and Matthew Marvin of Hartford, Ct ...

126 The English Ancestry of
As he does not allude to his wife, I judge she deceased
before her husband. He mentions a brother John, who may
be the John Alderman remembered by Rose,* and the chil-
dren below ; of the daughters, as will be seen, one has the
name of her mother and the other of her aunt, if the assign-
ment is correct :
72 i. Christopher, 5 b. before 1551, since he was one of the
executors of his father's Will.
73 ii. John, b. before 155 1, as he was also an executor.
74
iii. Agnes, b. .
75 iv. Marian, perhaps the " dau. of Christopher," whose bap-
tism is recorded 26 Nov., 1559, on St. Nicholas's Register.
The burial of a Marion is recorded there 14 Oct., 1592, of
whom I know no more.
ABSTRACT OF THE WILL OF CHRISTOPHER ALDERMAN.
30 th March, 1573. I, Christopher Alderman, of Ippeswich, in
be buried in the
co. Suffolk, clothier, " disquieted in bodie," . . . To
Church or Churchyard of St. Nicholas, Ipswich.
* Christopher Alderman, of Bentley, Suffolk, a Parish next south of Little Belstead,
in his Will dated 2 March, 1595/6, proved 22 July, 1596, recorded at Ipswich, Book
XXXVI (1596-97), fo. 265, mentions his father, John of Belstead (possibly, as sug-
gested above, the John mentioned by Rose, and brother of her son-in-law), his wife
Alice, and her children evidently by a previous husband, godson Richard, son of
Christopher of Ipswich, " dier," but he makes no allusion to children of his own. The
Will of a John Alderman, of St. Nicholas Parish, who died in 1588, names wife Jane,
sons John and Christopher, daughter Katherine, brother Christopher and his children
Christopher and Jone, a sister Ann, and other relatives, some of whom I find on the
Parish Register ; but it seems useless to attempt to trace the connection between these
and the husband of Agnes. I note that in Winthrop's History of New England there
is mention of a John Alderman (i. 144) who was lost in the woods between Dorchester
and Weymouth for a night or two in the autumn of 1634 ; he
was then " about fifty
years old." Savage thinks his wife was Jane; they were of Salem, 1636-57.