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Edward came to Plymouth in the "Anne" in 1623.
Edward could have married Rebecca Hobart
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EDWARD BANGS(1)
Edward Bangs signed his name as Edward Banges. (Gay Estey Bangs, Bangs Family in England, Add ress to the Convention of the Descendants of Edward Bangs, 1917, Brewster, MA)
[Edward Bangs] left England for America in 1622 on The Paragon which returned for repairs aft er a fortnight at sea. He sailed again in 1623, but the ship encountered such foul weather that they turned back to England. He finally came to America on The Ann in 1623, and was a founder of Nauset (Eastham) in 1644. (Horton-Clark Genealogy by C. Truesdell Fife Jr., a typed and hand-written genealogy.)
[Edward Bangs] was a shipwright, who, if the story be true, three years after the sailing o f the Mayflower, was summoned to the Ann to repair and fit her for the voyage, to the end of which he stayed. [Address to the Convention of the Descendants of Edward Bangs, by Francis Sedgwick Bangs, Esq. of New York City, 1917, Brewster, MA]
Edward Banges' home is believed to have been in that part of Eastham now known as Orleans o n the further side of the Town Cove on the hill. (Address by George W. Bangs of Huntington, NY, entitled "Captain Jonathan Bangs", Bangs Convention, Brewster, MA 1917)
His first recorded public service was in 1627, when he was appointed "in a full court" as on e of the "layers out" of land, an appraiser of land by court appointment, as also a builder of wolf traps, and as overseer or captain of the guard against Indians.
Edward Banges was made a "Freeman", or citizen, in 1633. . . In 1633 he was appointed with Ca ptain Miles Standish, John Doane, Stephen Hopkins, Joshua Pratt, Jonathan Brewster and Robert Hicks, to divide meadow ground in the "bay."
In 1634 Governor Prence appointed him on a committee for laying out highways; he was assesso r in 1634, 1635 and 1636, and in the latter year serving as juror to try "actions and abuses."
In 1635 he was on Governor Bradford's staff with Captain Miles Standish, Thomas Prence, Mr. H owland, John Alden, Stephen Hopkins, William Collier, Manaseh Kempton, Joshua Pratt and Stephen Tracy.
Five times, in 1636, 1637 and 1638 and again in 1640 and 1642, he served as one of the Gran d Inquest or Grand Jurymen "sworn to inquire of all abuses in the body of the government."
. . . .in 1639 he was an arbitrator in some dispute between two neighbors. . .
In 1641 and 1642 he contributed one-sixteenth part of the money to build a barque of forty o r fifty tons burden to cost 200 pounds, and is said to have superintended the building of this, the first vessel constructed at Plymouth.
In 1657 he was licensed as a merchant in Eastham, and is reputed to have been engaged for man y years, quite extensively, in trade.
. . . .in 1644, when it seems to have become fully realized that the territory about Plymout h was insufficient for their increasing numbers, he was chosen as one of the commission to investigate Nauset. When the church, on the report of this commission, decided to give permission to those to settle in Nauset who would pay for the land purchased from the Indians, but seven families, totaling forty-nine souls, according to Pratt's History, made the move, the family of Edward Banges being one of them. Just where the Edward Banges family made their home is not certain, but, from a record, we are led to believe it was "on the further side of the Cove," adjoining land "upon the hill" granted to Daniel Cole.
When Nauset was incorporated in 1646, Edward Banges became the first town treasurer, holdin g that office for twenty years until 1665, inclusive. During these years he also served four terms as deputy of the General Court at Plymouth, and, at times, as surveyor of highways, constable, and selectman; his last recorded service being in 1667 on a coroner's jury in the case of the death of David Doane.
. . . in 1643 he was in the list of those able to bear arms, and. . .in 1659, the military be ing required to arm and equip for service and three "troop horses" being proportioned to Eastham, Edward Banges united with Governor Thomas Prence in each paying the expense of a man and horse.
. . .in 1658 he was designated with Nicholas Snow and Richard Higgins for "oversight and disp osal of poor children." (Address of George D. Bangs presenting Tablet in Memory of Edward Banges to Eastham, Mass., August 26, 1916)
WILL OF MR. EDWARD BANGS.
This 19 of October 1677. I, Edward Banges, aged 86 years, being well stricken in years and no t knowing the day and houre when God may call mee hence, yett being in health and prfect memory doe leave this as my Last Will and Testiment. first I make my son Jonathan my whole and sole Executor to whom I give all my purchased land at Namskekett, and that way lying between Namskekett and Satucket brook, and I doe give him of meddow land lying next to meddow granted to Govr Prence, bounded by a ditch running from the upland toward the creek two acres and an half, be it more or lesse, bounded at the other end by a creek and I give him all my purchased land att Pocomett and all privilieges thereunto belonging, and I give him an acre and an half of meddow, lying at a place called the acars; also one acree lying att the harbours mouth. Also I give him a a prcell of up and down meddow lying att Rock harbour which I had in exchange of John Done. Also all those thinges which I have att his house, I give unto him; secondly, I give to my son John that twenty acrees of upland at Pochett that hee hath built upon; and five acres more adjoining to it to run from end to end, and I give him that land which I have at Pochett Island, and two acrees of meddow that lyeth att the boat meddow next to that which he bought of Daniell Cole, and three-quarters of an acree at the head of the boate meddow; Thirdly I give uto my son Joshua the house that I lived in and all the housing belonging to it, and twenty-eight acrees of land adjoining to it that lyeth near it, and I give him three acrees of meddow att the Boate meddow, lying att the Sandey Banks and one acre of meddow that lyeth att the Boate meddow, which is called the salt house acree. Also four acrees of meddow lying at the heade of Black-fish creek, likewise I give to Joshua fourteen acres of upland that lyeth at Pochett, next to the land of Jonathan Sparrow, fourthly I give to my son Jonathan's oldest son Edward Banges twenty-five acres of upland lying att Pochett field, be it more of lesse, Also I give unto him one acree of meddow att Rocke harboure, att the heade of the meddow next to Leiftenant Rogers, and half an acre of meddow lying at Great Namscekett which I bought of Daniell Cole, fifley I give unto my daughters, viz.: my daughter Howes, my daughter Higgens, my daughter Done, my daughter Hall, my daughter Merricke, and my daughter Atwood, four pounds apiece att my decease, and I give to my grandchildren, viz.: the children of my daughter Rebecka deceased four pounds att my decease, only with this proviso respecting the legacyes given to these my daughters and grandchildren, that the Estate left att my decease doe amount to soo much, otherwise what is left be equally divided amongst them, the grandchildren to have a seaventh prte and heer unto I do sett my hande and seale.
EDWARD BANGES
Signed and sealed in the prsence and a seale
of us JOHN FREEMAN
THOMAS CROSBEY.
The last Will and Testiment of Edward Banges Sein. deceased, above written, was exhibeted unt o the Court of his Matie helde att Plymouth in New England the flft day of March Anno Dom, one thousand six hundred seventy and seven (78) on the oath of Mr. John Freeman above named and Mr. Thomas Crosbey, and order by the said Court to be entered as above written.
PLYMOUTH ss. November 21, 1873. The foregoing is a true copy from Plymouth Colony Records o f Wills, Book 3, Part 2, Page 106.
WM. S. DANFORTH, Reg.
(History and Genealogy of the Bangs Family in America, Dean Dudley, 1896)
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