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- Lived to be 100. He lived 50 years in England and 50 years in America.
His will was dated September 7, 1687.
NOTE His first wife was Frances Ripley. His third wife he married after the
death of Nazareth Mary, widow of his old friend, Nicholas Jacob. She
died June 15, 1681.
John and Nazareth came to America on the vessel "Diligent," of which John Martin was Master, arriving at Boston on August 10, 1638. In one of the early manuscripts of the fourth town clerk, who had also arrived on the "Diligent", was recorded "1638, John Beal, shoemaker, with his five sons, three daughters and two servants came from old Hingham, landed and settled in New Hingham."
Perhaps the inducement that led Mr. Beal to select Hingham in Massachusetts Bay as a place of abode was that his wife was a sister of Rev. Peter Hobart, the first Minister of the town.
On March 13, 1639, he was admitted to the freedom of Massachusetts Colony, taking the customary freeman's oath. He represented the town in the General Court of the colony in 1649 and 1659.
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