2633.Thomas Curtis. Born ca 1619. Thomas was baptized in Ash-juxta-Sandwich, Kent, on 2 Nov 1619. Thomas died between 1680 and 1706.
From Deane’s History of Scituate:53
Thomas Curtis, (brother of Richard), was in Scituate 1649. He had previously lived at Georgiana, and is called of York, in our records. He returned to York, where he was living in 1684, at which date he gave a deed to his son Samuel, of lands on Curtis or Buttonwood hill, where Samuel and several generations of his family lived.
Two children of Thomas Curtis were born and baptized in Scituate second parish, Elizabeth 1649, and Samuel 1659. He had also a son Benjamin of Portsmouth. We have seen a deed (preserved here) from Robert Tufton Mason to Benjamin Curtis, conveying a lot of land ‘on Great Island in the Piscataqua River,’ dated 1681.
Thomas’s will was dated 19 Apr 1680, but not probated until 1 Oct 1706. It mentions his sons Joseph, Dodivah and Job; daughters Abigail, Lydia, Sarah, Rebecca and Anne Curtis, and Hannah Jynkins. He had already given portions to sons Benjamin and Samuel.
2634.Richard Curtis. Born ca 1620. Richard died in Scituate, MA on 15 Oct 1693.52
“Four brothers, Richard, William, John and Thomas Curtis, settled in Scituate. Thomas went to York, Maine; John appears to have left no descendants, while those of Richard and William are numerous in Scituate, Hanover and vicinity in Massachusetts
“Richard Curtis, immigrant ancestor, was born in Kent, England. He settled in Scituate, Massachusetts, about 1643, and died there in 1693. Some writers have confused this RIchard with Richard Curtis, of Dorchester and Milton; and with Richard Curtis, of Salem and Marblehead. Richard, of Scituate, was on the list of Plymouth colony men able to bear arms in that 1643, and was a town officer in 1650. His brother William as also on this list, and together they took the oath of fidelity. He was one of the ‘allowed and approved inhabitants’ to whom portions of the common lands were assigned by the joint committee of the general court in 1673. Richard Curtis and Thomas Hyland were witnesses to the will of General James Cudworth in 1682. His home was between that of Gowen White and the harbor below Millbrook.”47
From Deane’s History of Scituate:53
Richard Curtis was one of four brothers who came early to New England, viz. Richard, Thomas, John and William. John left no family.
Richard had lands at Marblehead in 1648, and in the same year he purchased lands in Scituate, and built a house between Gowin White's and the Harbour.
His will, dated 1692, gives 'To oldest son John two thirds of my real estate, he providing for my wife Lydia during her life. To son Thomsas one third, &c. To daughters Hannah Curtis, Elizabeth Brooks, Mary Badcocke, and Martha Clark.'
Ca 1648 Richard married Ann Hallet (2686) , daughter of John Hallet (1194) (-ca 1674), in Scituate, MA. Born ca 1628. Ann died in Scituate, MA bef 1692.
Plymouth Colony Records, vol 6, pages 39–40 1 June 1680 http://archive.org/details/cu31924070695105
In reference vnto the dispose of the estate of John Curtice, of Scittuate, late deceased, the Court haue ordered, that it shalbe deuided into fiue partes, wherof two partes therof is disposed vnto his eldest brother, Thomas Curtice, liueinf att Yorke, in the Province of Maine, and the other three partes vnto Richard Curtice, and William Curtice, and Elizabeth the wife of Jacob Bumpas, onely the said woman is to haue her parte out of the mouables of the said estate, and not to haue any parte of the lands.
2637.Elizabeth Curtis. Born ca 1624 in Kent, England.
Ca 1644 Elizabeth married Richard Banks. Born ca 1607. Richard died in York, York County, Maine 15 Jan 1690/1.