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- Three sources (following) agree that Aymes landed in Boston in 1635: (1)(1st source) "Aymes Gladwell [sic] age 16, arrived in Boston in 1635 on the Increase of London, Robt. Lea, Master. She left England the latter part of April and arrived Boston the end of July." (2)(2nd source) The Original List of Persons of Quality, Emigrants, Religious Exiles, Political Rebels, Men Sold for a Term of Years, Apprentices, Children Stolen; Maidens Pressed; and Others who went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700, with their Ages, the Localities where they formerly lived in the Mother Country, The Names of the Ships in which They Embarked, and Other Interesting Particulars. (3)(3rd source) Tepper, Michael (Ed.), Immigrants to the Middle Colonies: A Consolidation of Ships Passenger Lists and Associated Data from the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1977. Reprinted with new indices in 1978. Although, the three compilers probably worked from same original documents, and borrowed from each other, this landing is very well documented. What is not so well documented is what happened to Aymes in the MA colony. This, undocumented, is what the Arthur Glidewell manuscripts had to say:
"When he arrived in Boston in 1635, Aymes Glidewell first went to his uncle's, probably Anthony Ames of Charleston, Mass. Here he became one of an already large family for a few years.
"By 1640, Aymes must of [sic] tired of the hard colonist's life, or maybe he just became restless. Anyway, he went to sea on some of the numerous ships sailing out of the Boston harbor. About 1645, he moved to Gloucester, and was married there to Ann Bruen, Daughter of Daniel Bruen, another sailor-fisherman. Aymes settled down to deep sea fishing, a new but rapidly growing industry in the colony.
"One son Daniel, with whom we are chiefly concerned, was born in 1656 at Gloucester. There may have been other children, but we know nothing about them. When Daniel was about 5 years old, his father was lost at sea. The widow, with Daniel and her other children, if any, moved to New Windsor, Conn., to live with relatives. Her parents were already dead, but an uncle, Obidiah Bruen, was a prominent and prosperous citizen of that town.
[There is no mention of a son Robert, only a son Daniel. But in his article in the American Compendium, he reported that Aymes had a son Robert who was Daniel's father.]
"Four or five years later, in 1666, Obidiah Bruen sold out of his land in Conn. and moved to New Jersey, where he became one of the proprietors of a rather large grant. Ann Bruen Glidewell died about this time, whether before the move or after is not known; but the orphan Daniel was taken to New Jersey, where he lived through his youth. Daniel must have inherited his father's love for the sea, for when he was 12, he shipped as a cabin boy on a sailing merchant ship, beginning a career that would last two decades until he was too broken by the hard life to continue in it. Thus, about 1690, Daniel Glidewell a broken old man at 35, retired to land in the Isle of Wight County, VA. Perhaps his last voyage had ended at Norfolk; or he may have met there the widow he was to marry, Susan (Bernard) Thomas, whom he married about 1696.
Daniel's son, Robert, is our ancestor. There may have been other children of this union, but we don't know about them. Robert was born about 1698. Daniel then took his family to Bristol Parish, Va, further inland, maybe to get away from the temptation of the sea. Here Daniel lived until his death in 1728, after having been stricken with paralysis, having lost his wife, and become a charge of the Parish." [end quote].
Came to the US 15 Apr 1635 as a Passenger to New England in the "Increase" belonging to Robert Lea Mr. having taken the oathes of Allegeance and Supremacie: As also being conformable to the Government and discipline of the Church of England wherof they brought testimony p'f Cert. from ye Justices and ministers where there abodes have latlie been. (viz) listed as Aymes Gladwell age 16. ("Passengers to America" pg 24, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.)
Aymes GLADWELL listed place of origin: Wapping-St. John., C., (Clerkenwell) L13 just north of London from -Wills and Where to Find Them by Gibson pg 89 London & Middlesex
"L" = Archdeaconry of London based on Lewis's Topographical Dictionary Pub. 1831.
Pioneers of Mass. by Charles Henry Pope, 1981 Bolt, Genealogical Publishing Co., Page 188: Gladwell, Amos, age, 16, came in the Increase, April 15, 1635.
Planters of the Commonwealth, Charles Edward Banks, Genealogy Publishing Co., 1972 pg 151 Towns mentioned for the destinations for the passengers:
Hingham, Cambridge, Dedham, Preston, Harford, Salem, Watertown, Wethersfield, Saco, Maine, Hampton, N. H., Falmouth, Maine, (None listed of the group of young men of which Aymes was one.)
Genealogy listed in The Compendium of American Genealogy pg. 565 lists Aymes as settling in Boston, MS.
Fran & Jack Glidewell, 101 Longwood Place, Nashville, TN 37215-1926 (615) 292-6153 (1998)
Another descendant is Jeff GLIDEWELL from Orlando, FL. He called in February 1999 and wanted to name his newborn son Aymes. He wanted the correct spelling for Aymes. Cell Number (407) 234-1114.
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1619 - Abt 1661 (42 years)
