Edward Bangs

     Edward was born in Panfield, County Essex, England.⁴ On 28 October 1591, he was christened in Panfield, County Essex, England. He was the son of John Bangs and Jane Chavis. In 1623, Edward left England aboard the ship, "Anne", mastered by William Peirce, enroute for New England. They arrived in the Plymouth Colony in late June. His wife-to-be was also aboard this vessel..^5,6 In 1623, he received four acres at Plymouth as a result of being a passenger on the ship "Anne". In 1627, Edward Banges received a division of cattle & was the 13th person in the 12th company. He was admitted a freeman on 1 January 1633 at Plymouth. He was a shipwright and directed the building of the first vessel built in Plymouth. He held several offices there until he removed to Eastham. Edward married Lydia Hicks in 1633 in Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. Edward's wife, Lydia, died circa 1634 in Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, leaving him a widower; She probably died from complications of childbirth. Edward married 2nd Rebecca Hobart, daughter of Edmund Hobart and Margaret Dewey, in 1635 in Massachusetts. He was an innkeeper. He & his family were among the first seven settlers of Eastham in 1644. Edward made his will on 19 October 1677 at Eastham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts.

. . . In his will, dated 19 October 1677 "Edward Banges, aged 86 years," made son Jonathan sole executor and bequeathed to him "all my purchased land at Namskekett," two acres and a half of meadow, "all my purchase land at Pocomett[?]," an acre and a half of meadow "at a place called the acars," one acre at the harbor's mouth, "a parcel of upland and meadow lying at Rock harbour which I had in exchange of John Done," and "all those things which I have at his house"; to son John "that twenty acres of upland at Pochett that he hath built upon," five acres adjoining to the twenty acres, "that land which I have at Pochett Island," two acres of meadow at Boat Meadow, and three-quarters of an acre at the head of Boat Meadow; to son Joshua "the house that I lived in and all the housing belonging to it," twenty-eight acres of land adjoining, three acres of meadow at Boat Meadow, one acre of meadow at Boat Meadow, four acres of meadow at the head of Blackfish Creek, and fourteen acres of upland at Pochett; to son Jonathan's eldest son Edward Bangs twenty-five acres of upland at Pochett Field, one acre of meadow at Rock Harbor, and "half an acre of meadow lying at Great Namscekett which I bought of Daniell Cole"; to "my daughter Howes, my daughter Higgens, my daughter Done, my daughter Hall, my daughter Merricke, and my daughter Attwood, four pounds apiece at my decease, and I give to my grandchildren, viz: the children of my daughter Rebecka deceased four pounds at my decease" [PCPR 3:2:106].⁷

Edward departed this life before 5 March 1678 in Eastham, Barnstable County, Massachusetts. His will was probated on 5 March 1678.