There is insufficient evidence to confirm John's parents. He married Ann Walden/Waldren in Plymouth Colony MA on 29 Nov 1638.
Children with Ann:
1) Hannah Smalley (1641-1708), m: John Bangs.
2) John Smalley Jr (1644-1733), m: Lydia Martin.
3) Mary Smalley (1647-1699) (twin), m1: John Snow, m2: Ehpraim Doane.
4) Isaac Smalley (1647-1724) (twin), m1: Esther Wood, m2: Mary White.
John Smalley Sr came to America with Edward Winslow aboard the ship "William and Francis", sailing from London 9 Mar 1632 and arriving in New England 5 Jun 1632.
In 1637/38, a garden place at Willingsley Brook and six acres upon Woberry Plain in Plymouth County, were granted "John Smaley" and in 1640, five acres "in the South Meddows towards Aggawam, Colebrook Meddowes." John sold these lots of land on 21 Mar 1644 to Edmund Tilson, with "all his house and housing and garden place"; signature "John Smalley".
On 7 Sep 1641, John was propounded for freeman. Two years later, Aug 1643, "John Smaley" appears in a Plymouth Colony list of "all the males that are able to bear armes from XVI years old to 60 yeares wthin the severall Townshipps".
Will of John Smalley, of Piscataway:
"TO ALL PEOPLE to whome this present writeing shall come, I John Smalley of the Towne of Piscataway In the Countie of Middsx: & Province of East New Jersey send Greeting &c: Know yee that I the sayd John Smalley as well for & In consideration of the Naturall Affection & ffatherly consideration I have & beare unto my well beloved & dewtifull son Isaac Smallee of the same Towne & Countie And Also for diverse other good causes & considerations mee att this present moveing but more Especially haveing had large Experience of his filliall love & Endeavours towards his Aged Parents In makeing our lives Comfortable to us In this our Pilgremage hitherto, And being confidently Assure that hee will still continue his care & filliall Affection In provideing what is convenient for mee the sayd John Smallie & Ann Smalley my wife his Naturall & Aged Parents dureing the small Remainder of time that wee are to Remaine on this side the Grave, Have given Granted, And do by these presents give grant & confirme unto my sayd Sone Isaac Smalley all & singular my goodes Chattells, debts, household stuffe, brass pewter bedding & All other my substance whatsoever moveable & imoveable quick & dead of what kinde name qualitie or condition soeever the same are or bee, Excepting my Armes (viz) my sword & Gun & my wearing Apparell, which I have given to my sone John Smalley after my decease to my dawghter Hanah Banges one shilling, to my dawgher Mary Snow one shilling, to my sone John Smallies two sones John & Jonathan one yearelen Heiffer betweene them And to my dawghter Mary Snowes three Eldest dawghters five shillings a peece, All to bee payd after my decease, And that my Loveing wife Ann Smallie shall have one Cow to dispose of According to her will & pleasure, To Have & to Hold All & singular the Abovesaid goodes & chattells with All other the Aforesayd premises (Excepting what is before Excepted) unto the sayd Isaac Smally his Executors Administrators & Assignes forever to his & theire owne proper uses & behoofes forever, freely & quietly without any matter of challenge claime or Demand of mee the sayd John Smally or of any other persone or persones whatsoever for mee In my Name, by my cause meanes or procurement And without any other thing therefore to bee yeelded payd or done unto mee the sayd John Smally my Executors Administrators or Assignes but to provide convenient for mee the sayd John & Ann Smally my wife dureing these our Naturall lives & the longer liver of us both, And After our deaths decently to burie us In such place as hee the sayd Isaac shall thinke convenient, Alwayes provided And bee It further Excepted, that If the sayd Isaac Smally showld die before his sayd ffather & mother John & Ann Smally or the longer liver of them both, then it shall or may bee Lawfull, And the sayd John & Ann Smally or Either of them hath full power & Authoritie to reenter, And to take Into theire possession & custody & dispose of any of the goodes & Chattells above mentioned as they shall have neede & occasion for dureing this theire Naturall lives for theire Comfortable maintainance & being, but for no other Ends uses or meanes whatsoever any thing In the above mentioned Deede of Gift to the contrary notwithstanding.
"IN WITNESS hereof I the sayd John Smally have sett my hand & seale this sixteenth day of July 1689
John Smally [mark for a seal]
"Signed Sealed & delivered In the presence of Edward Slater, Samuell Blackfoord parsonally came before mee Edward Slater And upon his Corporall oath did declare that hee saw John Smally deceased signe seale & deliver to his sone Isaac above named, the Above deede of Gift, June: 23d: 1697
Samuell Dennes Justice"
Some Sources:
*New England Marriages Prior to 1700.
*American Marriages Before 1699.
*US & International Marriage Records 1560-1900.
*Old Colony Records, Vol 3, Part 2, pg 313.
*Plymouth Colony Records, Court Orders, Vol I: 103.
*New England Hist & Genealogical Reg: 280; Vol IX: 283.
*Passenger & Immigration Lists Index 1500s-1900s, pg 96.
*American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI), Vol 160, Pg 514.
*New Jersey Abstract of Wills 1670-1817, pg 423.
*New England Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-33, pgs 1687 to 1689.
*New England Historic Genealogical Society.
Please Note:
No markers can be found for the graves of John and his wife.
To date, the surname of Ann Walden/Waldren cannot be proven without a doubt to be actually Wallen and no Walden families were found in the area at all. That said, several Waldren/Waldron families were recorded in other areas nearby, to which it appears Ann may belong.
Children with Ann:
1) Hannah Smalley (1641-1708), m: John Bangs.
2) John Smalley Jr (1644-1733), m: Lydia Martin.
3) Mary Smalley (1647-1699) (twin), m1: John Snow, m2: Ehpraim Doane.
4) Isaac Smalley (1647-1724) (twin), m1: Esther Wood, m2: Mary White.
John Smalley Sr came to America with Edward Winslow aboard the ship "William and Francis", sailing from London 9 Mar 1632 and arriving in New England 5 Jun 1632.
In 1637/38, a garden place at Willingsley Brook and six acres upon Woberry Plain in Plymouth County, were granted "John Smaley" and in 1640, five acres "in the South Meddows towards Aggawam, Colebrook Meddowes." John sold these lots of land on 21 Mar 1644 to Edmund Tilson, with "all his house and housing and garden place"; signature "John Smalley".
On 7 Sep 1641, John was propounded for freeman. Two years later, Aug 1643, "John Smaley" appears in a Plymouth Colony list of "all the males that are able to bear armes from XVI years old to 60 yeares wthin the severall Townshipps".
Will of John Smalley, of Piscataway:
"TO ALL PEOPLE to whome this present writeing shall come, I John Smalley of the Towne of Piscataway In the Countie of Middsx: & Province of East New Jersey send Greeting &c: Know yee that I the sayd John Smalley as well for & In consideration of the Naturall Affection & ffatherly consideration I have & beare unto my well beloved & dewtifull son Isaac Smallee of the same Towne & Countie And Also for diverse other good causes & considerations mee att this present moveing but more Especially haveing had large Experience of his filliall love & Endeavours towards his Aged Parents In makeing our lives Comfortable to us In this our Pilgremage hitherto, And being confidently Assure that hee will still continue his care & filliall Affection In provideing what is convenient for mee the sayd John Smallie & Ann Smalley my wife his Naturall & Aged Parents dureing the small Remainder of time that wee are to Remaine on this side the Grave, Have given Granted, And do by these presents give grant & confirme unto my sayd Sone Isaac Smalley all & singular my goodes Chattells, debts, household stuffe, brass pewter bedding & All other my substance whatsoever moveable & imoveable quick & dead of what kinde name qualitie or condition soeever the same are or bee, Excepting my Armes (viz) my sword & Gun & my wearing Apparell, which I have given to my sone John Smalley after my decease to my dawghter Hanah Banges one shilling, to my dawgher Mary Snow one shilling, to my sone John Smallies two sones John & Jonathan one yearelen Heiffer betweene them And to my dawghter Mary Snowes three Eldest dawghters five shillings a peece, All to bee payd after my decease, And that my Loveing wife Ann Smallie shall have one Cow to dispose of According to her will & pleasure, To Have & to Hold All & singular the Abovesaid goodes & chattells with All other the Aforesayd premises (Excepting what is before Excepted) unto the sayd Isaac Smally his Executors Administrators & Assignes forever to his & theire owne proper uses & behoofes forever, freely & quietly without any matter of challenge claime or Demand of mee the sayd John Smally or of any other persone or persones whatsoever for mee In my Name, by my cause meanes or procurement And without any other thing therefore to bee yeelded payd or done unto mee the sayd John Smally my Executors Administrators or Assignes but to provide convenient for mee the sayd John & Ann Smally my wife dureing these our Naturall lives & the longer liver of us both, And After our deaths decently to burie us In such place as hee the sayd Isaac shall thinke convenient, Alwayes provided And bee It further Excepted, that If the sayd Isaac Smally showld die before his sayd ffather & mother John & Ann Smally or the longer liver of them both, then it shall or may bee Lawfull, And the sayd John & Ann Smally or Either of them hath full power & Authoritie to reenter, And to take Into theire possession & custody & dispose of any of the goodes & Chattells above mentioned as they shall have neede & occasion for dureing this theire Naturall lives for theire Comfortable maintainance & being, but for no other Ends uses or meanes whatsoever any thing In the above mentioned Deede of Gift to the contrary notwithstanding.
"IN WITNESS hereof I the sayd John Smally have sett my hand & seale this sixteenth day of July 1689
John Smally [mark for a seal]
"Signed Sealed & delivered In the presence of Edward Slater, Samuell Blackfoord parsonally came before mee Edward Slater And upon his Corporall oath did declare that hee saw John Smally deceased signe seale & deliver to his sone Isaac above named, the Above deede of Gift, June: 23d: 1697
Samuell Dennes Justice"
Some Sources:
*New England Marriages Prior to 1700.
*American Marriages Before 1699.
*US & International Marriage Records 1560-1900.
*Old Colony Records, Vol 3, Part 2, pg 313.
*Plymouth Colony Records, Court Orders, Vol I: 103.
*New England Hist & Genealogical Reg: 280; Vol IX: 283.
*Passenger & Immigration Lists Index 1500s-1900s, pg 96.
*American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI), Vol 160, Pg 514.
*New Jersey Abstract of Wills 1670-1817, pg 423.
*New England Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-33, pgs 1687 to 1689.
*New England Historic Genealogical Society.
Please Note:
No markers can be found for the graves of John and his wife.
To date, the surname of Ann Walden/Waldren cannot be proven without a doubt to be actually Wallen and no Walden families were found in the area at all. That said, several Waldren/Waldron families were recorded in other areas nearby, to which it appears Ann may belong.
There is insufficient evidence to confirm John's parents. He married Ann Walden/Waldren in Plymouth Colony MA on 29 Nov 1638.
Children with Ann:
1) Hannah Smalley (1641-1708), m: John Bangs.
2) John Smalley Jr (1644-1733), m: Lydia Martin.
3) Mary Smalley (1647-1699) (twin), m1: John Snow, m2: Ehpraim Doane.
4) Isaac Smalley (1647-1724) (twin), m1: Esther Wood, m2: Mary White.
John Smalley Sr came to America with Edward Winslow aboard the ship "William and Francis", sailing from London 9 Mar 1632 and arriving in New England 5 Jun 1632.
In 1637/38, a garden place at Willingsley Brook and six acres upon Woberry Plain in Plymouth County, were granted "John Smaley" and in 1640, five acres "in the South Meddows towards Aggawam, Colebrook Meddowes." John sold these lots of land on 21 Mar 1644 to Edmund Tilson, with "all his house and housing and garden place"; signature "John Smalley".
On 7 Sep 1641, John was propounded for freeman. Two years later, Aug 1643, "John Smaley" appears in a Plymouth Colony list of "all the males that are able to bear armes from XVI years old to 60 yeares wthin the severall Townshipps".
Will of John Smalley, of Piscataway:
"TO ALL PEOPLE to whome this present writeing shall come, I John Smalley of the Towne of Piscataway In the Countie of Middsx: & Province of East New Jersey send Greeting &c: Know yee that I the sayd John Smalley as well for & In consideration of the Naturall Affection & ffatherly consideration I have & beare unto my well beloved & dewtifull son Isaac Smallee of the same Towne & Countie And Also for diverse other good causes & considerations mee att this present moveing but more Especially haveing had large Experience of his filliall love & Endeavours towards his Aged Parents In makeing our lives Comfortable to us In this our Pilgremage hitherto, And being confidently Assure that hee will still continue his care & filliall Affection In provideing what is convenient for mee the sayd John Smallie & Ann Smalley my wife his Naturall & Aged Parents dureing the small Remainder of time that wee are to Remaine on this side the Grave, Have given Granted, And do by these presents give grant & confirme unto my sayd Sone Isaac Smalley all & singular my goodes Chattells, debts, household stuffe, brass pewter bedding & All other my substance whatsoever moveable & imoveable quick & dead of what kinde name qualitie or condition soeever the same are or bee, Excepting my Armes (viz) my sword & Gun & my wearing Apparell, which I have given to my sone John Smalley after my decease to my dawghter Hanah Banges one shilling, to my dawgher Mary Snow one shilling, to my sone John Smallies two sones John & Jonathan one yearelen Heiffer betweene them And to my dawghter Mary Snowes three Eldest dawghters five shillings a peece, All to bee payd after my decease, And that my Loveing wife Ann Smallie shall have one Cow to dispose of According to her will & pleasure, To Have & to Hold All & singular the Abovesaid goodes & chattells with All other the Aforesayd premises (Excepting what is before Excepted) unto the sayd Isaac Smally his Executors Administrators & Assignes forever to his & theire owne proper uses & behoofes forever, freely & quietly without any matter of challenge claime or Demand of mee the sayd John Smally or of any other persone or persones whatsoever for mee In my Name, by my cause meanes or procurement And without any other thing therefore to bee yeelded payd or done unto mee the sayd John Smally my Executors Administrators or Assignes but to provide convenient for mee the sayd John & Ann Smally my wife dureing these our Naturall lives & the longer liver of us both, And After our deaths decently to burie us In such place as hee the sayd Isaac shall thinke convenient, Alwayes provided And bee It further Excepted, that If the sayd Isaac Smally showld die before his sayd ffather & mother John & Ann Smally or the longer liver of them both, then it shall or may bee Lawfull, And the sayd John & Ann Smally or Either of them hath full power & Authoritie to reenter, And to take Into theire possession & custody & dispose of any of the goodes & Chattells above mentioned as they shall have neede & occasion for dureing this theire Naturall lives for theire Comfortable maintainance & being, but for no other Ends uses or meanes whatsoever any thing In the above mentioned Deede of Gift to the contrary notwithstanding.
"IN WITNESS hereof I the sayd John Smally have sett my hand & seale this sixteenth day of July 1689
John Smally [mark for a seal]
"Signed Sealed & delivered In the presence of Edward Slater, Samuell Blackfoord parsonally came before mee Edward Slater And upon his Corporall oath did declare that hee saw John Smally deceased signe seale & deliver to his sone Isaac above named, the Above deede of Gift, June: 23d: 1697
Samuell Dennes Justice"
Some Sources:
*New England Marriages Prior to 1700.
*American Marriages Before 1699.
*US & International Marriage Records 1560-1900.
*Old Colony Records, Vol 3, Part 2, pg 313.
*Plymouth Colony Records, Court Orders, Vol I: 103.
*New England Hist & Genealogical Reg: 280; Vol IX: 283.
*Passenger & Immigration Lists Index 1500s-1900s, pg 96.
*American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI), Vol 160, Pg 514.
*New Jersey Abstract of Wills 1670-1817, pg 423.
*New England Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-33, pgs 1687 to 1689.
*New England Historic Genealogical Society.
Please Note:
No markers can be found for the graves of John and his wife.
To date, the surname of Ann Walden/Waldren cannot be proven without a doubt to be actually Wallen and no Walden families were found in the area at all. That said, several Waldren/Waldron families were recorded in other areas nearby, to which it appears Ann may belong.
Children with Ann:
1) Hannah Smalley (1641-1708), m: John Bangs.
2) John Smalley Jr (1644-1733), m: Lydia Martin.
3) Mary Smalley (1647-1699) (twin), m1: John Snow, m2: Ehpraim Doane.
4) Isaac Smalley (1647-1724) (twin), m1: Esther Wood, m2: Mary White.
John Smalley Sr came to America with Edward Winslow aboard the ship "William and Francis", sailing from London 9 Mar 1632 and arriving in New England 5 Jun 1632.
In 1637/38, a garden place at Willingsley Brook and six acres upon Woberry Plain in Plymouth County, were granted "John Smaley" and in 1640, five acres "in the South Meddows towards Aggawam, Colebrook Meddowes." John sold these lots of land on 21 Mar 1644 to Edmund Tilson, with "all his house and housing and garden place"; signature "John Smalley".
On 7 Sep 1641, John was propounded for freeman. Two years later, Aug 1643, "John Smaley" appears in a Plymouth Colony list of "all the males that are able to bear armes from XVI years old to 60 yeares wthin the severall Townshipps".
Will of John Smalley, of Piscataway:
"TO ALL PEOPLE to whome this present writeing shall come, I John Smalley of the Towne of Piscataway In the Countie of Middsx: & Province of East New Jersey send Greeting &c: Know yee that I the sayd John Smalley as well for & In consideration of the Naturall Affection & ffatherly consideration I have & beare unto my well beloved & dewtifull son Isaac Smallee of the same Towne & Countie And Also for diverse other good causes & considerations mee att this present moveing but more Especially haveing had large Experience of his filliall love & Endeavours towards his Aged Parents In makeing our lives Comfortable to us In this our Pilgremage hitherto, And being confidently Assure that hee will still continue his care & filliall Affection In provideing what is convenient for mee the sayd John Smallie & Ann Smalley my wife his Naturall & Aged Parents dureing the small Remainder of time that wee are to Remaine on this side the Grave, Have given Granted, And do by these presents give grant & confirme unto my sayd Sone Isaac Smalley all & singular my goodes Chattells, debts, household stuffe, brass pewter bedding & All other my substance whatsoever moveable & imoveable quick & dead of what kinde name qualitie or condition soeever the same are or bee, Excepting my Armes (viz) my sword & Gun & my wearing Apparell, which I have given to my sone John Smalley after my decease to my dawghter Hanah Banges one shilling, to my dawgher Mary Snow one shilling, to my sone John Smallies two sones John & Jonathan one yearelen Heiffer betweene them And to my dawghter Mary Snowes three Eldest dawghters five shillings a peece, All to bee payd after my decease, And that my Loveing wife Ann Smallie shall have one Cow to dispose of According to her will & pleasure, To Have & to Hold All & singular the Abovesaid goodes & chattells with All other the Aforesayd premises (Excepting what is before Excepted) unto the sayd Isaac Smally his Executors Administrators & Assignes forever to his & theire owne proper uses & behoofes forever, freely & quietly without any matter of challenge claime or Demand of mee the sayd John Smally or of any other persone or persones whatsoever for mee In my Name, by my cause meanes or procurement And without any other thing therefore to bee yeelded payd or done unto mee the sayd John Smally my Executors Administrators or Assignes but to provide convenient for mee the sayd John & Ann Smally my wife dureing these our Naturall lives & the longer liver of us both, And After our deaths decently to burie us In such place as hee the sayd Isaac shall thinke convenient, Alwayes provided And bee It further Excepted, that If the sayd Isaac Smally showld die before his sayd ffather & mother John & Ann Smally or the longer liver of them both, then it shall or may bee Lawfull, And the sayd John & Ann Smally or Either of them hath full power & Authoritie to reenter, And to take Into theire possession & custody & dispose of any of the goodes & Chattells above mentioned as they shall have neede & occasion for dureing this theire Naturall lives for theire Comfortable maintainance & being, but for no other Ends uses or meanes whatsoever any thing In the above mentioned Deede of Gift to the contrary notwithstanding.
"IN WITNESS hereof I the sayd John Smally have sett my hand & seale this sixteenth day of July 1689
John Smally [mark for a seal]
"Signed Sealed & delivered In the presence of Edward Slater, Samuell Blackfoord parsonally came before mee Edward Slater And upon his Corporall oath did declare that hee saw John Smally deceased signe seale & deliver to his sone Isaac above named, the Above deede of Gift, June: 23d: 1697
Samuell Dennes Justice"
Some Sources:
*New England Marriages Prior to 1700.
*American Marriages Before 1699.
*US & International Marriage Records 1560-1900.
*Old Colony Records, Vol 3, Part 2, pg 313.
*Plymouth Colony Records, Court Orders, Vol I: 103.
*New England Hist & Genealogical Reg: 280; Vol IX: 283.
*Passenger & Immigration Lists Index 1500s-1900s, pg 96.
*American Genealogical-Biographical Index (AGBI), Vol 160, Pg 514.
*New Jersey Abstract of Wills 1670-1817, pg 423.
*New England Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-33, pgs 1687 to 1689.
*New England Historic Genealogical Society.
Please Note:
No markers can be found for the graves of John and his wife.
To date, the surname of Ann Walden/Waldren cannot be proven without a doubt to be actually Wallen and no Walden families were found in the area at all. That said, several Waldren/Waldron families were recorded in other areas nearby, to which it appears Ann may belong.
Gravesite Details
Unmarked grave.
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