Nicholas FROST

1585 - 1663  (78 years)

• Name	Nicholas FROST
  Born	25 Apr 1585	Tiverton, Devonshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Migration	1632	Damariscove Island, Lincoln, Maine
  Residence	1634	Kittery, York, Maine
  Anecdote	25 Jun 1640	Piscataquis County, Maine   [1]
  	Constable
  Anecdote	8 Sep 1640	Kittery, York, Maine   [2]
  	Fined for non-appearance
  Anecdote	27 Jun 1648	Kittery, York, Maine   [2]
  	Timber warden from the mouth of the Piscataqua to the upper part of the river
  Anecdote	3 Jul 1660	Kittery, York, Maine   [3]
  	Constable
  Will Notes	At a court at Wells on 29 September 1663 "Lt. Charles Frost of Kittery, the eldest son & heir unto Nicho[las] Frost lately deceased, hath present- ed a certain instrument in the nature of a deed of gift made in September 1650 ... conceiving the said instrument ... to be the last will & testament of the said Nicholas his father." The court considered this and other documents, declared this not to be a valid will, appointed Charles Frost administrator of the estate, and ordered distribution of the estate as follows: eldest son Charles Frost to have a double portion (including the homestall) and £30 more; the residue of the estate to be equally divided among the other four children (each share to come to £105 12s. 7d.), and specifically William Leighton is to "have liberty to cut 3 loads of hay against the next winter out of Sturgeon Creek Marsh which was formerly his father-in-law's, John Frost is to have "the long marsh with that 300 acres of land belonging to it, & lying within York bounds 2 acres & 1⁄2 of salt marsh, "William Leighton shall have disposed unto him in the behalf of Katterne Leighton his wife's part," "Elizabeth Frost at 18 years of age or when she marries is to have her part," and Nicholas Frost at twenty-one years of age is to have his part" including "a house & land at Kittery" and "in the meantime may choose his guardian if he see cause" [MPCR 2:383-85]. On 5 March 1663/4 Charles Frost (on behalf of himself and his brother Nicholas), William Leighton, John Frost and Elizabeth Frost consented to the division of the estate that had been made, and Charles Frost was released from his administrator's bond [MPCR 2:388-89]. At a court at Wells on 6 October 1674 there was a report of a dispute over the settlement of the estate, and a committee was ordered to resolve the matter [MPCR 2:496]. The inventory of the estate of Nicholas Frost, taken 24 September 1663, was untotalled and included £318 of real estate: "homestall of dwelling house, barn & other out houses... containing in all three hundred acres," £205; "former grant of land of three hundred acres from the proprietors' agent joining to his home land," £18; "the Long Marsh by estimation ten acres & the grants of land belonging to it, three hundred acres," £60; "two acres & a half of salt marsh in York bounds," £5; "house & land at Kittery joining to William Leighton's by estimation 30 acres," £20; and "a grant of one hundred acres of land on the south side of Sturgeon Cricke," £10 [MPCR 2:380-83].  [4]
  Immigrant?	Y
  Parents Unproven	Y
  Died	20 Jul 1663	Kittery, York, Maine
  Person ID	I33751	Main
  Last Modified	19 Oct 2023

  
  

  Father	John FROST,   b. 17 Nov 1558, Cornbre Hill, Cornwall, England ,   d. 6 Feb 1609, Tiverton, Devonshire, England  (Age 50 years)
  Mother	Anna HAMDEN,   b. 8 Oct 1565, Caer Bran, Cornwall, England ,   d. 1593, Devonshire, England  (Age 27 years)
  Family ID	F31442	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	--?-- MNU,   b. Abt 1610, England ,   d. Abt 1650, Kittery, York, Maine  (Age ~ 40 years)
  Married	Abt 1632	England   [5]
  Children	+ 1. Maj Charles FROST,   b. 30 Jul 1631, Tiverton, Devonshire, England ,   d. 4 Jul 1697, Kittery, York, Maine  (Age 65 years)   2. John FROST,   b. Abt 7 Aug 1633, England ,   d. Bef 10 Jun 1687, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts  (Age ~ 53 years)   3. Nicholas FROST,   b. 30 May 1634, Kittery, York, Maine ,   d. Abt 1673, Limerick, County Limerick, Ireland  (Age 38 years)   4. Anna FROST,   b. 17 Apr 1635, Kittery, York, Maine ,   d. 4 Jul 1650, Kittery, York, Maine  (Age 15 years)   5. Catherine FROST,   b. 25 Dec 1637, Kittery, York, Maine ,   d. 15 Aug 1715, Kittery, York, Maine  (Age 77 years)   6. Elizabeth FROST,   b. 10 May 1640, Kittery, York, Maine ,   d. Aft 17 Mar 1732, Kittery, York, Maine  (Age > 92 years)
  Last Modified	19 Oct 2023
  Family ID	F11523	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 25 Apr 1585 - Tiverton, Devonshire, England Married - Abt 1632 - England Residence - 1634 - Kittery, York, Maine Anecdote - 8 Sep 1640 - Kittery, York, Maine Anecdote - 27 Jun 1648 - Kittery, York, Maine Anecdote - 3 Jul 1660 - Kittery, York, Maine Died - 20 Jul 1663 - Kittery, York, Maine  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Notes

  s/o John FROST (b. 17 Nov 1558 near Cornbre Hill, Cornwall, England) and Anna HAMDEN (b. 8 Oct 1565 near Caer Bran, Cornwall, England). —— DEATH: Between 7 July 1663 (grand jury service [MPCR 2:137-40, 144]) and 24 September 1663 (date of inventory) [MPCR 2:380]. MARRIAGE: By about 1632 ; does not appear in any record. (Although the birthdates of the children are all based on estimates, the gap of nearly a decade between the second child and the third may imply that Nicholas was married twice.) CHILDREN: 1 CHARLES, b. about 1632; m. by 1664 Mary Bolles, daughter of Joseph Bolles [YLR 5:34]. 2 CATHERINE, b. about 1634 ("Mrs. Katherine Hamond died August the 15th 1715 in the 82nd year of her age" [KitVR 12]); m. (1) by about 1655 William Leighton; m. (2) shortly after 5 July 1670 (date of contract [GDMNH 304]) Joseph Hammond. 3 JOHN, b. say 1643; m. (1) 1 June 1668 Mehitable Buttolph, daughter of Thomas Buttolph (eldest child b. Boston 9 January 1669 [BVR 110; TAG 58:130-32]); m. (2) 24 August 1680 Maria Davis (eldest child b. Boston 16 May 1681 [BVR 154]). (The dates of these two marriages, and the maiden surname of the second wife, do not ap- pear in the Boston vital records. They appear to be from a family Bible cited by John E. Frost [Frost Gen 17]. See also NEHGR 17:241.) ELIZABETH, b. say 1645; m. 14 May 1667 William Gowen (date from GDMNH, but not in published Kittery vital records; eldest child John b. Kittery 19 November 1668 [KitVR 9], although son Nicholas may be older, in which case the marriage date would be in doubt). 4 NICHOLAS, b. about 1647; d. Limerick, Ireland, "about the beginning of August 1673" [MPCR 2:295-97, 303-04, 486; YLR 2:150, 3:67-68]. —— 3 October 1632: "It is ordered, that Nicholas Frost, for theft committed at Damerill's Cove upon the Indians, for drunkenness and fornication, of all which he is convicted, shall be fined £5 to the Court, and £40 to Henry Way & John Holman, shall be severely whipped, & branded in the hand with a hot iron, & after banished out of this patent, with penalty that if ever he be found within the limits of the said patent, he shall be put to death; also it is agreed that he shall be kept in bolts by Henry Way & John Holman, till his fines be paid, during which time he is to bear his own charges" [MBCR 1:100-01]. On 14 October 1651 Nicholas Frost was indicted for conspiring with James Bunker, William Ellingham and others to steal from Mr. Shapleigh [MPCR 1:170]. At the same court Nicholas Frost was presented for "saying he hoped to live so long as to wet his bullets in the blood of the Saints" [MPCR 1:164]. —— Philip Swaddon deposed on 27 August 1673 that thirty-eight or thirty-nine years earlier (i.e., 1634 or 1635) Thomas Wannerton granted to Nicholas Frost "a parcel of land up in Piscataqua River, now known by the name of Kittery ... which tract of land Mr. Thomas Wannerton gave to the said Nicholas Frost to come to be his neighbor" [YLR 3:13]. On 30 March 1649 Nicholas Frost gave a seven-year lease to Jeremy Sheires on "his new house and ground at Kittery" [MPCR 1:130-31]. [2, 6, 7]

  
  

• Sources

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