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John Treworgye

Male 1618 - Aft 1660  (42 years)


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  • Name John Treworgye  [1, 2, 3, 4
    Born 30 Dec 1618  Kingswear (4 miles S. of Brixham), Devonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Baptism 30 Dec 1618  St. Thomas a Beckett Church, Kingswear, Devonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation 25 Oct 1650 
    Deposition (Suffolk Deeds) 
    Occupation 8 Apr 1651 
    Named with seven other commissioners to arrest Governor David Kirke in Newfoundland 
    Occupation 27 May 1653 
    Newfoundland placed under Treworgye's care and protection (Governor until 1660) 
    Occupation 3 Jun 1653 
    Commissioner for managing and ordering the affairs and interest of the Commonwealth of Newfoundland 
    Occupation 3 Jun 1653 
    Instructed to collect the impositions upon fish and oil until further orders 
    Occupation 3 Jun 1653 
    Instructed to deliver up to whoever Sir David Kirke shall appoint, all that remains of his estate, formerly sequestered 
    Occupation 3 Jun 1653 
    Receive and examine all complaints, and certify their particular cases to the Council 
    Occupation 3 Jun 1653 
    Secure the fishery against any attempts, full powers being granted to him to command vessels upon the coast to assist therein 
    Occupation 24 Apr 1654 
    Petition to Oliver Cromwell concerning his arrest by James Kirke for allegedly owing £1.100 to Sir David's estate 
    Died Aft 1660 
    Person ID I7368  Godbout
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 

    Father James Treworgye,   b. Abt 1593, Kingswear (4 miles S. of Brixham), Devonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 2 Jul 1650, Kittery, York County, Maine, New England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 57 years) 
    Mother Catherine Shapleigh,   b. Abt 1598, Kingswear (4 miles S. of Brixham), Devonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 May 1676, Exeter, Rockingham Co., New Hampshire, New England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 78 years) 
    Married 16 Mar 1616  Kingswear (4 miles S. of Brixham), Devonshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F2650  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Penelope Spencer,   b. Abt 1625, Newbury, Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts, New England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1650, Dartmouth, Massachusetts, New England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 26 years) 
    Married 15 Jan 1646  Newbury, Newburyport, Essex, Massachusetts, New England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F3753  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S196] NEHGR: New England Historical and Genealogical Register, (New England Historical and Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts), Volume 31 (1877), p. 182; Vol. 40 (1886), p. 176 & Vol. 50 (1896), p. 219.
      The cellar wch is at Pascataway now standing neere the house wch Wm (William) Hilton now lives in, did not any way belong to the land wch was bought by me for my Grandfather mr Alexander Shapleigh (deposition taken 25 October 1650).

    2. [S95] Alexander Shapleigh of Kittery, Maine, and some of his descendants, Ralph Sylvester Bartlett, (New England Historical and Genealogical Register), Volume 95 (April 1941), p. 181.

    3. [S740] Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series, 1574-1660, Volume 1, Preserved in the Public Record Office. Edited by W. Noël Sainsbury, Esq., (Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts, London, 1860), 354-355; 403 & 415-416.
      8 April 1651: Warrant for a commission to John Littlebury, John Treworgie, Walter Sikes, Nicholas Redwood, Thomas Griggs, Miles Pile, Alexander Clotworthy, and William Hendy, to examine upon certain interrogatories, witnesses on the part of the Commonwealth and the Adventurers to Newfoundland, and to receive informations concerning any miscarriages committed by Sir David Kirke since the time of his living there. Annexed, The Interrogatories above mentioned. Benefits made by adventurers' goods carried over by Sir David Kirke. Money received of planters for fishing boats, licensing taverns, granting leases for land, and selling wines. Sale of beaver and other skins. Profits by fishing and buying and selling. - Warrant to John Littlebury, Walter Sykes, Capt. Thomas Thoroughgood, commander of the Crescent, Capt. Thomas Jones, commander of the Ann and Joyce, and Capt. William Haddock, commander of the America, or any two of them, to take into their possession, for the use of the Adventurers to Newfoundland, Sir David Kirke having been ordered to repair to England, all ordinance, ammunition, houses, boats, and other appurtenances belonging to the fishing trade in Ferryland, or any other part of Newfoundland, and to collect the impositions upon fish paid by strangers, until Parliament declare their further pleasure. (Interregnum)

    4. [S202] Piscataqua Pioneers, 1623-1775: Register of Members & Ancestors, John Scales, (Higginson Book Company, Press of Charles F. Whitehouse, Dover, N.H., May 1919), 180.