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Subject: [Ma-Bay-Colony] the oath - to take it or not.....GRANGER of Newbury,Mass.and Suffield Conn
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 01:27:16 +0000

Lancelot Granger.....of Suffield...he's my aunt's line [my mother's half
sister]...
* Samuel-2 b.1668 ,married Esther Hanchett of Westfield,Mass.;
* Samuel-3,b.1702, Suffield,Conn; married Mary Kent 1723
* Elijah-4,b. 1744,Suffield; married Mary King
* Roderick-5, b. 1780 Hartford,Ct; died Towanda,Pa,1848;mar.Armanda Dunlop
* John-6, b. 1820 ; married Eliz Bennett,Towanda,Pa
* Sabrena-7 b. 1849 in T.Pa,married George Lafy
* Perry Lafy-8; b.1879 ;died 1933 ....he was my Aunt's father.... my aunt's
mother [and my mother's mother] was a Cole [desc.of James Cole of Plymouth]
and now the line goes to my cousins...
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the Granger line migrated to Pa in late 1700's...from Suffield,Conn.
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Lancelot came from St.Antholin Parish in England....first settled at
Ipswich and then Newbury
source: TOPOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH EMIGRANTS, C.E.Banks,
Baltimore,1937.
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source: DIRECTORY OF THE HEADS OF NEW ENGLAND FAMILIES,1620-1700, Frank R.
Holmes, New York,1923
" Launcelot came from England to Ipswich,Mass,1648; removed to
Newbury,Mass."
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Cynthia

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> Thanks for the response.
> I fully understand the reasons for taking the oath but have always wondered
> why one would choose not to. In the case of my ancestor, Launcelot Granger,
> who seems to have been a reasonably upright citizen, although his origins are
> still not clear. But he was an early arrival to the colonies and was granted
> land as one of the first proprietors of Suffield. Why, as it is clearly
> documented, did he never take the oath? Was oath-taking by invitation only?
> I suspect perhaps it was as there is evidence in Pynchon records of some
> disagreements between the Grangers and local authorities.
> In a message dated 2/23/03 2:13:33 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> writes:
>
> << One must be of good character, promise to uphold the laws of the general
> court.....and be a member of the Congregational Church....
>
> Perhaps the non-signers were not church members
> Own land ?
> Character ? committed crime(s)
> etc.
> >>
>
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