FIRST GENEPATION 1. EDWARD1KETCHAM. The JAn. 1954 issue of the American Genealo- gist contains a fine article by Mr. John Coddington about the records of Edward in England. Edward Kecham married Mary Hall, Aug. 22, 1619,.as recordid-in th& Parish'Registers of St. Andrew the Great, Cambridge, England. (We are using the various methods of spelling the na@ as found in the early records.) Since the church re cords of ambridge previbub to 1600 are not in existe- nce we have no proof that Edward may not have been born there but since we find no records of other Ketchams there it is poss- ible he came from elsewhere. Perhaps before that the name had not been Ketcham but Kitchen or some similar name. We find no record of him after the baptism of his 4th child ih 1628 until he came to Ipswich, north of Boston, Mass., About 1635, 2 years after its settlement. The original reecrde of Ipswich were lost in a fire in;1851. Someone said he came of the ship Hopewell but we do not find his name on tte passenger lists of that ship nor of any passenger list in existence. Savage in "A Genealogical Dictionary of the Flrst Settlers of New Encland" (oublished 1861 and probably the best known of the many bublications which men- tion'the 11ttle known about Edward) sayt, "Edward Ketcham, Ips- wich, 1635, freeman, Mar.9, 1637, may. reasonably be thought progenitor of all of the name ln our country and therefore I = '91 repret the more that we are ignorant of the circumstances of his .sm * 1«4 migration and subsequent residence. u A freeman was a voter. 11/ 22 »0 In 1637 the neople of Ipswich heard that John Winthrop the younger was to command the Castle Fort at Boston, so 54 Ipswich men signed a. petition of remonstrance against his removal from Ipswich. Edward' s was the 23rd name. A photostatic copy of the 4 list is in Waters' "Ivewich in the Mass. Bay Colony" (1905). Edward' s signature is in very plain, neat handwrit*ng, and . 4 spelled Katcham. In 1640 he sold land in Ipswich to Samuel Boardman according to Goldwaite'k "Boardman Genealogy." We find that a few years later he had removed to Southold in e astern Long Island, N. Y. Mrs. Josephine Frost in "Ancestors of James Wickham and his Wife Prudence Billard" says, "The earllest rec- ords of Southold are lost. u She then enumerates the property of Wm. Wells "part of it belng Lieut. Budd"s land and the highway that separates the lot of Edward Ketcham from it,0 which proves Edward was a landholder prior to 1651. Soon after that he remov- - -7 ed to Stratford, Fairfield Co., Conn. where he died in 1655. -Hi-8 -------- will is still at Fairfield but the book into which it was copied le about 300 years old and so fragile no one has been allowed to look at it in recent years but there are photostats of the will, the third on file. Years ago a bottle of ink spilled on the open book ran down through many pages. Acid (perhaps ueed in an at- te-mpt to bleach the-fresh__inkL*_te a- large hole. The writing is plain and there is room to have mentioned al-1---th€--childrenv----------»- Some of the books that mention t!-is will are "Ancestors of Welding_Ring _anills Wife, Ida 14lvina Mailler" (1935) and ' "Ancestors of Jacob ShaffeP- and -hi"*-Wifel-- Cordelia Hunt"-(19271,--____ both by Mrs. Frost, "History and Genealogy of the Families of old_Fairfield, Conn.* by Donald Lines Jacobus (1930), NA History i , OCR Text: FIRST GENEPATION 1. EDWARD1KETCHAM. The JAn. 1954 issue of the American Genealo- gist contains a fine article by Mr. John Coddington about the records of Edward in England. Edward Kecham married Mary Hall, Aug. 22, 1619,.as recordid-in th& Parish'Registers of St. Andrew the Great, Cambridge, England. (We are using the various methods of spelling the na@ as found in the early records.) Since the church re cords of ambridge previbub to 1600 are not in existe- nce we have no proof that Edward may not have been born there but since we find no records of other Ketchams there it is poss- ible he came from elsewhere. Perhaps before that the name had not been Ketcham but Kitchen or some similar name. We find no record of him after the baptism of his 4th child ih 1628 until he came to Ipswich, north of Boston, Mass., About 1635, 2 years after its settlement. The original reecrde of Ipswich were lost in a fire in;1851. Someone said he came of the ship Hopewell but we do not find his name on tte passenger lists of that ship nor of any passenger list in existence. Savage in "A Genealogical Dictionary of the Flrst Settlers of New Encland" (oublished 1861 and probably the best known of the many bublications which men- tion'the 11ttle known about Edward) sayt, "Edward Ketcham, Ips- wich, 1635, freeman, Mar.9, 1637, may. reasonably be thought progenitor of all of the name ln our country and therefore I = '91 repret the more that we are ignorant of the circumstances of his .sm * 1«4 migration and subsequent residence. u A freeman was a voter. 11/ 22 »0 In 1637 the neople of Ipswich heard that John Winthrop the younger was to command the Castle Fort at Boston, so 54 Ipswich men signed a. petition of remonstrance against his removal from Ipswich. Edward' s was the 23rd name. A photostatic copy of the 4 list is in Waters' "Ivewich in the Mass. Bay Colony" (1905). Edward' s signature is in very plain, neat handwrit*ng, and . 4 spelled Katcham. In 1640 he sold land in Ipswich to Samuel Boardman according to Goldwaite'k "Boardman Genealogy." We find that a few years later he had removed to Southold in e astern Long Island, N. Y. Mrs. Josephine Frost in "Ancestors of James Wickham and his Wife Prudence Billard" says, "The earllest rec- ords of Southold are lost. u She then enumerates the property of Wm. Wells "part of it belng Lieut. Budd"s land and the highway that separates the lot of Edward Ketcham from it,0 which proves Edward was a landholder prior to 1651. Soon after that he remov- - -7 ed to Stratford, Fairfield Co., Conn. where he died in 1655. -Hi-8 -------- will is still at Fairfield but the book into which it was copied le about 300 years old and so fragile no one has been allowed to look at it in recent years but there are photostats of the will, the third on file. Years ago a bottle of ink spilled on the open book ran down through many pages. Acid (perhaps ueed in an at- te-mpt to bleach the-fresh__inkL*_te a- large hole. The writing is plain and there is room to have mentioned al-1---th€--childrenv----------»- Some of the books that mention t!-is will are "Ancestors of Welding_Ring _anills Wife, Ida 14lvina Mailler" (1935) and ' "Ancestors of Jacob ShaffeP- and -hi"*-Wifel-- Cordelia Hunt"-(19271,--____ both by Mrs. Frost, "History and Genealogy of the Families of old_Fairfield, Conn.* by Donald Lines Jacobus (1930), NA History i , Heritage Society of Pacific Grove,Historical Collections,Names of People about town,I through K File Names,Ketcham,KETCHAM_006.pdf,KETCHAM_006.pdf 1 Page 1, Tags: KETCHAM_006.PDF, KETCHAM_006.pdf 1 Page 1