Robert2Proctor

Robert Proctor, the earliest American ancestor of the families to which this volume is devoted, first appears in this country at Concord, Massachusetts, where he was made. a freeman in 1643. He married, Dec. 31, 1645, Jane, the eldest daughter of Richard Hildreth of Concord and Chelmsford, the ancestor of the Hildreths of America, who died at Chelmsford in 1688, and whose younger daughter, Abigail, became the wife of Moses Parker.
In 1653 Robert Proctor, in connection with Richard Hildreth and twenty-seven others, petitioned the General Court for a grant of land six miles square, ' ' to begin at Merrimack river at a neck of land next to Concord river, and so run up by Concord river south, and west into the country to make up that circumference or quantity of land as is above expressed." The petition was granted. In 1654 Mr. Proctor removed to the new plantation which was organized, November twenty-second of that year, as a town under the name of Chelmsford. The first four or five of his children were born in Concord, the others in Chelmsford. His descendants resided in many of the neighboring towns, and at an early date some of them pushed back into the wilderness and settled in New Hampshire, Vermont and New York, and have since scattered over the West.
He died at Chelmsford, April 28, 1697. Letters of administration upon his estate were granted to Jane Proctor, executrix, July 13, 1697. In his will, dated March 10, 1695-6, he speaks of having already deeded lands to his sons Gershom, Peter, James, John, Samuel and Israel, and mentions son Thomas, to whom certain lands are given if he "live and return from Sea to New England;" also daughters Dorothy Barrett, Elizabeth Proctor, Sarah Chamberlain and Mary Bourne. Some of his children settled in what afterwards became the West Precinct, and later the town of Westford. His children were as follows:
I. Sarah, b. Oct. 12, 1646; m. Aug. 10. 1606. Thos. Chamberlain
II. Gershom, b. May 13.1648
III. Mary, b. Apr. 20. 165O; m. 1685. John Bourne
IV. Peter, b. 1652
V. Dorothy, b. 1654; m. Dec. 18. 1679, John Barrett. Jr.
VI. Elizabeth, b. Dec. 16, 1656; became in 1765 the third wife of Samuel Fletcher
VII. James, b. Jan. 8. 1658
VIII. Lydia, b. Feb. 19, 1660 ; d. Aug. 13. 1661
IX. John, b. Aug. 17. 1663
X. Samuel, b. Sept. 15, 1665
XI. Israel, b. Apr. 39, 1668
XII. Thomas, b. Apr. 30, 1671; went to sea and there Is no evidence that he returned

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