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YOUNG, Rowland: married about 1648 as his second wife, Joanna KNIGHT, daughter of Robert KNIGHT. He died in York, ME about 1685; she survived him and died about 1698.
He was a fisherman and went to York about 1636 and received a town grant at Bass Cove in 1653. He signed the oath of allegience 22 Nov 1952, a petition against the sale of Maine in 1679, and a petition to the king in 1680. He was fined for traveling to Kittery on Sunday in 1666 and for drunkeness in 1678.
His chldren were: Rowland, William, Richard, Robert, Samuel, Job, Lydia.
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About 1603 - Rowland was born
Prior to 1636 - Rowland first fished at the Isles of Shoals before he acquired land on the creek in York.
1636 - Rowland lived in York, ME according to a deposition he made in 1686 (see below).
About 1648 - Rowland Young Sr. married Joanna (Knight).
1650 - Rowland was on the Grand Jury.
22 Nov 1652 - He took the oath of Allegiance to Massachusetts.
1653 - Rowland had a town grant at Bass Cove which he sold to Daniel Dill. Rowland's home was in Godfrey's first division of the grand patent extending northeast from Meeting House Creek.
1655 - Rowland was on the Grand Jury
1666 - Rowland was fined for travelling to Kittery on a Sunday
4 Dec 1666 - Rowland and Joanna (Knight) Young sell land to Daniel Dill.
1674 - Rowland Young appears on an early Maine Census as head of a household.
12 Apr 1677 - His house was burned by the Indians on Ferry Neck.
1678 - Rowland was fined for drunkenness.
1678 - Rowland was on the Grand Jury.
28 Mar 1679 - Rowland signed a petition against the sale of Maine.
1680 - Rowland signed the petition to the King praying that they might be restored to his immediate authority as a Royal Province, but to no avail and the Massachusetts authorities declared themselves: "the now Lord Proprietors of the Province of Maine".
1680 - Rowland and his wife deeded the Knight land to son Robert.
8 Apr 1682 - Rowland and his wife deeded ten acres to son Samuel.
25 Aug 1685 - Rowland and his wife deeded the Knight homestead to son Rowland Jr.
1685 - Rowland willed the remainder to his wife Joan.
1686 - Rowland Young Jr., fisherman of York declared that “Rowland Sr. had lived in York fifty years” (since 1636) thus making him one of the first settlers in the town.
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To his Excellency Sir Edmond Andross Lieutenent Governour of his Majesty's territory and dominion of New England
The humble petition of Rowland Young sheweth that your petioners father was an inhabitant in the town of York in the province of Maine nigh fifty years, there he brought up a great family of children, and by his labor purchased a small tract of land in the same town, eight acres whereof he gave to your petitioner: That your petitioner about sixteen years ago: laid out about one hundred and fifty pounds in building upon the said land, but in the time of the late Indian War your pettiioners house was burnt and he and his family exposed to hardship, that the selectmen of the said towne of York being sensible of your petitioners great loss did offer to bestow upon your petitioner eighteen acres of land out of fence and unimproved adjoining to your petitioners land but it was never laid out to him nor as yet disposed of to any other person. Now in-as-much as your petitioner has built a little house upon his land and having a great charge of children, is not able to support his family upon that land left him by his father, he humbly prays your excellency to grant unto him and his heirs the above said eighteen acres of land unimproved and out of fence upon such moderate quit rent as to your excellency shall seem meet.
And Your Petioner Shall Ever Pray.
Signed Rowland Young Jr. (his seal and mark)
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To his Excellency Sir Edmond Andross Lieutenent Governour of his Majesty's territory and dominion of New England
The humble petition of Rowland Young sheweth that your petioners father was an inhabitant in the town of York in the province of Maine nigh fifty years, there he brought up a great family of children, and by his labor purchased a small tract of land in the same town, eight acres whereof he gave to your petitioner: That your petitioner about sixteen years ago: laid out about one hundred and fifty pounds in building upon the said land, but in the time of the late Indian War your pettiioners house was burnt and he and his family exposed to hardship, that the selectmen of the said towne of York being sensible of your petitioners great loss did offer to bestow upon your petitioner eighteen acres of land out of fence and unimproved adjoining to your petitioners land but it was never laid out to him nor as yet disposed of to any other person. Now in-as-much as your petitioner has built a little house upon his land and having a great charge of children, is not able to support his family upon that land left him by his father, he humbly prays your excellency to grant unto him and his heirs the above said eighteen acres of land unimproved and out of fence upon such moderate quit rent as to your excellency shall seem meet.
And Your Petioner Shall Ever Pray.
Signed Rowland Young Jr. (his seal and mark)
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To all Christian people to whom this present deed of gift shall come.
Know ye that I Rowland Young Sr. of the town of York in the province of Maine, fisherman, together by and with the consent freewill and agreement of Joanna my now wife for and in consideration of the natural love and affection we do bear to our son Robert Young, as also for diverse other good causes and considerations us thereunto moving have given, granted alienated, enfeoffed and confirmed and hereby do give grant alienate enfeoff and Confirm unto him the said Robert Young our son and his heirs forever ten acres of land together as it is now bounded and laid out, which is a part of ye lot or tract of land which was formerly my now wife’s father’s, Robert Knight’s land where he formerly lived and is now in the tenure and possession of me the said Rowland Young Sr., my assign or assigns lying and being in York in the province of Maine which ten acres of land being part of the said Robert Knight’s farm or lot of land is laid out or bounded by a small brook of fresh water, which is near unto the house of Mary Sayward, widow which brook is south, or thereabouts from the said house, from the said brook southeast thirty two poles to a small Alder tree marked on four sides, from the Alder tree southwest fifty poles to a white oak marked on four sides, from the said white oak tree northwest nearest thirty two poles unto three small oaks growing and standing together all marked, and so to run northeast fifty poles unto the said brook abovementioned, which four lines completes the said ten acres of land, hereby granted and confirmed.
To have and to hold the said ten acres of land together with the appurtenances unto him the said Robert our son and his heirs forever only his wife Mary Young is to have ye free use and benefit of it during her natural life in as full large and ample manner to all constructions intents and purposes as I the said Rowland Young and Joanna my wife may or can estate the same freed and discharged from all other or former gifts grants sales mortgages jointers whatsoever made had committed or done by me the said Rowland or any of my ancestors, and I the said Rowland Young do acknowledge that the said lot or tract of land is really my own and that I have full power to dispose of it by virtue of my father-in-law Robert Knight’s right gift and grant to me as it was the said Robert Knight’s at any time while he lived and I the said Rowland Young and Joanna my now wife for us our heirs executors, administrators and assigns and forever and either of us do hereby covenant promise and agree to and with the said Robert Young our son and his heirs and to and with either of them that he the said Robert Young and his heirs forever and Mary his wife during her natural life shall or may from the date of these presents henceforth from time to time and at all times hereafter shall quietly and peaceably, have hold to manure and enjoy and possess the said tract of ten acres of land be it more or less as it is above bounded and we do hereby bind us our heirs executors and administrators against us the said Rowland Young and Johanna my wife our heirs, executors, administrators and assigns the said land to defend and against all other person or persons whatsoever claiming the said ten acres of land or any part or parcel thereof forever the Lord proprietor of the province of Maine, rents only excepted.
In witness hereof we the said Rowland Young and Joanna my wife have hereunto set our hands and seals this third Day of June in thirty second Year of the reign of our sovereign Lord Charles the Second, of England Scotland France and Ireland King Defender of the faith, Annoq, Dom 1680, and further we grant unto our aforesaid son as an addition to what is formerly expressed the full breath of that land belonging to us all and every part of it, so far as John Leades his lot, and in length the whole quantity, so far as our interest doth extend as witness our hands and seals, always provided that our said son Robert Young and his assigns do allow us something considerable out of the said lands if our necessity shall require it.
Signed Sealed and Delivered in the presence of:
Arthur Bradgon
Daniel Livingstone
Robert Young Sr. (his mark and seal)
Rowland Young (his mark and seal)
Joanna Young (her mark and seal)
Rowland Young Sr. and Joanna his Wife came before me this 7th day of September 1685 and owned this instrument to be their act and deed.
Edw. Rishworth Justice of the peace
A true copy of the original instrument transcribed and compared this 13th May 1688 as attests.
Tho. Scottow Department of Regisition
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Upon the 22 of Nov 1652 the Commissioners held their court and the inhabitants appeared and after some time spent in debatements and many questions answered and objections removed with a full and joint consent acknowledged themselves subject to the government of the Massachusetts in New England: only Mr. Godfrey did forbear until the vote was past by the rest and then immediately he did by word and vote express his consent also. The names of those that took ye oath of freemen were:
Rowland Young was one of the signers.
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A petition from the inhabitants of Maine to Charles II about 1680. It is without date, but it must have been prepared in 1680 or the beginning of 1681 - at least one of the petitioners died in 1681 and the Indian War, to which reference is made, ended in 1679.
To the King's most excellent Majesty, the humble petition of your Majesty's freeborn subjects, the inhabitants of the province of Maine in New England.
Humbly sheweth that your Majesty's father of ever blessed memory by his letters patent bearing date at Westminster in the fifty-first year of his reign, did grant unto Sir Ferdinando Gorges his heirs and assigns that tract of land called the Province of Maine, making the same equal with the Palatinate of Durham and to enjoy the like privileges to lay out and grant townships, to dispose of lands not disposed of before, and that no law be exercised in the Province but such as were made and consented to by your Majesties freeholders inhabiting the said Province. And that your petitioners upon these invitations and encouragements did settle in the said province in great numbers and in short time increased unto several townships having amongst us several Courts of Judicature and Records and for divers years were governed according to their laws (agreeable to the laws of England) made by the Commissioners of Sir Ferdinando Gorges and the freeholders therein. That the Bostoners under pretence of an imaginary patent line did invade our rights and privileges erecting their own authority by causing the inhabitants to swear fidelity to their government.
That about the year 1661 upon our humble representation of these matters your Majesty was graciously pleased by your royal authority by your royal letters of 1664 to that government to require them not farther to disturb nor meddle in the province, which they then refused to obey.
Whereupon your petitioners representing their grievances to your Majesties Commissioners in 1665, they solemnly restored and reestablished your Majesties authority amongst us by which we administered the oaths of allegiance and proceeded to govern and according to our former laws and so continued till about the year 1668 when Maj. Leveret Walderne and others entered upon the province and with force of arms disturbed the inhabitants, then at a Court holden for your Majesty at York in your Majesties province of Maine commanding all proceedings for the future to be managed by their own authority and laws; Since which time notwithstanding the great loss sustained by the late Indian war we are still oppressed with heavy rates and taxes imposing the sum of three thousand pounds and upward to be collected and paid by the inhabitants of three towns (viz.) York, Wells and Kittery. Your petitioners humbly pray your Majesty to take the premises into your royal consideration and by your gracious letters to reestablish and confirm us under your royal authority granting liberty to tender consciences to empower such whose names we here humbly represent to govern according to the laws and constitutions of this your Majesties province until your Majesties pleasure be further known therein, to which we shall in all readiness and duty submit. And your petitioners shall every pray.
Rowland Young Sr. signed with many others.
Source: Collections of the Maine Historical Society, First Series Volume I; pp 401-402
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In the name of God Amen, Rowland Young Senior of York in the province of Maine, declareth this to be his last will and testament;
I Rowland Young aforesaid, being at this present of a sound mind, and of a memory substantial, though very sickly in body, and willing to dispose prudently of what God in His pleasure hath possesed me with all, declare as followeth:
First: I bequeath my soul to God, that gave it in and through ye merits of my dear Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, in hopes of a joyful resurrection, at the great tribunal: and my body to the earth to be interred, in order and decent burial.
Secondly: I will that all my funeral charges shall be fully and duely paid, with all my other just and due debts, which may appear.
Thirdly: I will that my dearly, and beloved wife, Johanna Young shall enjoy all my estate that I have in this world, the same to possess and improue, and to take the full produce of from time to time, and at all times during the time of her natural life and if in case the produce of ye same shall not be a competent measure for her comfortable subsistance I do hereby empolre my well beloved to sell, align or dispose of all or any of my estate, not yet disposed of, for that end, and shall desire any court or seal or judicature, in such case of extremity, to aid and assist my beloved wife therein, and also so to order that she may have a comfortable livelyhood according to her rank, and quality out of ye same. And further I order my well beloved wife to will bequeath and dispose of what part of my estate, she shall leave at her decease, to whom she pleaseth; I also will the possession present of all my estate, houses lands marshes, or anything ye unto belonging to my dearly beloved wife, to whom I committ sole execution, and administration, desiring this my wellbeloved wife to act as sole executrix, in all respects to see my last will and testament performed.
Signed & delivered
Rowland Young (his mark)
In thePresence of:
Jeremiah Mowlton (his mark)
Timothy Yealls
Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 85, citing Registry of Deeds, 5, 38
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These presents do witness that I Rowland Young of York fisherman with the free consent of my wife Joanna do in consideration of ye sum of nine pounds to me in hand paid by Captain John Davis and other considerations thereunto me moving; do give grant sell and confirm unto Daniel Dill of the said town his heirs executors administrators forever a certain tract or parcel of land containing ye full quantity of ten acres more or less, lying and being between Bass Cove and John Chirmihill’s land, bounded with John Alcock’s lot on ye northwest side and Richard Banks his lot on ye southeast side to run twenty poles by ye river side and so backward till ye ten acres be extended according to town grant whereby ye said land was given me bearing July the 3d 1653 - which ten acres of land, with all ye appurtenances and privileges thereto appertaining, I the said Rowland Young on ye former consideration of that nine pounds paid me by Daniel Dills order from Captain Davis does hereby in ye behalf of myself heirs and assigns ratify and confirm unto aforesaid Daniel Dill his heirs and assigns forever, the said Dill paying what yearly acknowledgment shall appear to be due if demanded.
As witness my hand and seal this 4th Day of December 1666 in ye Eighteenth year of our Sovereign Lord ye King Charles ye Second.
Rowlan d Young (his mark and seal)
S igned Sealed and Delivered in ye presents of:
Edw Rishworth
John Twisden
Daniel Liuingstoun
Rowlan d Young and Joan Young his wife do acknowledge this instrument above written to be their act and deed, this 4th of December 1666.
B efore me
Edw. Rishworth Justice of the Peace
A true copy of the original instrument transcribed and compared this 16th May. 1696 - Jos Hamond Registration
Source: York Deeds, Volume IV, Fol. 159
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Whereas upon a late purchase made by the Agents of the Colony of the Massachusetts in the behalf of Sir Fardinando Gorges heir of the province of Main in pursuance whereof have commissioned several gentlemen to assert their authority over the inhabitants of the said province, to make entrance unto the settlement thereof, according to the regulation of that charter requiring subjection thereunto. And forasmuch as his Majesty by his late letter doth manifest his disallowance of their purchase aforesaid, so that by our consenting to their commands in the premises we shall endanger his Majesty’s displeasure therein, to whom our allegiance is due do therefore by these presents declare our dissent and nonoccurrence in any such method of government as by them is intended to be settled until his Majesty’s pleasure be further known for the confirmation thereof, which being assented we shall readily render our subjection thereunto.
Rowland Young Sr. was one of the signers.
This Declaration was delivered to Mr. Thomas Danford, sent over by the Governor and Council of Boston as their President of the Province of Maine (sitting then in Court at York in the said Province, upon the 18th of March 1679) by John Hole in behalf of the Gent whose names are hereunto subscribed.
Source: Documentary History of the State of Maine; p.391
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Know all men by these presents that I, Richard Knight of Boston, have bargained sold set over and delivered all housing marsh and uplands, with what else is specified within this will make mention within written, which did belong unto my father, Robert Knight deceased, and according as his last will and testament makes mention, hath sold the same unto my brother Rowland Young, for and in ye consideration of the just some of eighty six pounds ten shillings to me in hand paid, before the assigning and setting over the same, and do hereby bind me my heirs executors administrators and assigns firmly unto the said Young his heirs executors administrators and assigns, to his and there peaceable enjoying every part and parcel thereof.
In testimony thereof I have here unto set my hand this 15th day of Feb 1677:
Richard Knight
Signed and Delivered in the presence of:
Peter Weare Sr.
Job Allcocke
John Twisden
Abra. Preble
Mr. Weare and John Twisden do attest upon their oaths, that this assign was the act and deed of Richard Knight to Rowland Young taken upon oath this 27th of Feb 1678 before us:
Edw. Rishworth
John Daves
Commissioners
A true Copy of this Assignment transcribed and compared with the original this 28th of Feb 1678:
Edw : Rishworth Recorder:
Source: York Deeds Volume III, Fol. 38
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To all Christian people to whom this present deed of gift shall come.
Rowland Young Sr, with his well beloved wife, Joanne Young of York in ye province of Maine in New England sendeth Greeting;
Now know ye alI the said Rowland Young, with the consent and concurrence of my well beloved wife Joanne Young, for ye respect, and natural affection we bear unto our dutiful son Rowland Young of the Isles of Shoals the northernmost, have given granted, and by these presents, do give align, and confirm, as a full and free grant in an inheritance of fee simple to him the said Rowland Young our son here male, lawfully begotten of his body, and to him and theirs forever, one certain tract, or parcel of land, lying and being on the north side of the river in York above said, part of which said tract of land, was formerly ye homestead, and in the possession of our loving father, Robert Knight deceased but now lawfully to us conveyed the present dowers: the other part a certain tract, or remaining division of land, adjoining to the former above said and lying to the northwest of it, or there abouts, and to carry as much breadth as our father Knights old field, till it meets with our son Robert’s grant, and also adjoining to a parcel of land now in tenure and possession of my loving son Robert Young, which we the above said donors, gave also to the above said Robert which said parcel of land as above said be it more or less, with all the privileges, appurtenances, proprieties, or benefits, in every and all respects, as to any part or parcel there of, we freely and considerately, give and grant to our dutiful son Rowland and to his as above said; and further we the said Rowland Young and Joanne my beloved wife, do thus order ye the said Rowland Young shall have a free and common outlet through our son Robert Young’s land which we gave and granted to him, and lies adjoining to ye present granted tract, and that ye said outlet shall give full and free passage, and repast, both for man and beast, both to the Mill, and also to ye Conians, in York, which passage or way in common, to the said Rowland our son, for the intents above said, shall remain to perpetuity, with all freedom of egress and ingress and regress, to through and from the said way in every respect to him the said Rowland his heirs as above said, forever: without ye let suit, denial, or molestation, of the said Robert Young our son or any succeeding him, forever; Always provided ye if it should please almighty God, to take to the earth this our Loving son Rowland by death and our loving and dutiful daughter his beloved and espoused wife Susanna should survive after him, we thus order and determine in this our deed of gift, that the said Susanna, shall in that time of her widowhood or natural life, remaining a widow shall enjoy the produce profit, or benefit, of the growth of ye said land, or any privilege, or any appurtenance hereto belonging, further declaring, ye this said tract of land as above said in every respect, as to any part or parcel thereof, with all the privileges and appurtenances, is freely and clearly quit, and freely and clearly quitted from all and former gifts and grants, or from any encumbrance from by or under us the donors in all respects, and that or dutiful son Rowland and his successors, shall and may lawfully enjoy, hold, use and possess, the said tract of land as his own proper inheritance in fee simple, to perpetuity: and we the said Rowland Young and Joanne my beloved wife donors of the above said premises, will the same warrant and defend to our beloved son above said, and the same both to him and his as above said, harmless to keep from all and person, laying any just claim, to all or any part of the afore mentioned premises, from by or under us: and further we will do any act, or acts that may be for the better confirmation of the same, as acknowledgment and for true performance of each and every article above mentioned we the said donors have here unto set our hands, and affixed our seals the 25th of August 1685 Anno, Regni Regis Jacobus secundus, Anno Dom 1685.
Signed sealed and Delivered
Rowland Young (his mark and seal)
Joanne Young (her mark and seal)
Rowland Young Sr. and Joanne Young his wife came before me and acknowledged this instrument to be ye act and deed this 29th of August 1685.
John Daves Deputy President
In the presence of:
Samuel Matthews (his mark and seal)
Timothy Yeolles
A true copy of this instrument above written transcribed out of the original and ye with Compared this 18th day of March 1686.
Edw. Rishworth Recorder
Source: York Deeds Volume 4 Fol. 54 & 55
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To all Christian people, to whom this present deed of Gift shall Come.
Know ye that we, Rowland Young Sr. of York, in the province of Maine, and Johanna Young, my beloved wife, for and in consideration of the parental love, and natural affection that we bear unto or loving son Samuel Young, have given and granted, and by these presents do give grant and confirm unto our aforesaid son Samuel Young, one tract of land, to the value or quantity of ten acres, lying and being, in part of a tract of land, granted unto me by the town of York, at a public town meeting, held at York on the fifteenth day of September 1667 and laid out to me and bounded, by the selectmen of the town of York, April the ninth 1679 which will appear by the said town grant upon records of the said town, and also by the return of the aforesaid selectmen that laid out and bounded the aforesaid land which said granted land lying behind my now dwelling house, and runs from thence upon a northeast line, or there abouts, till forty acres be measured, which above said ten acres of land, we do give freely unto the said Samuel, where he will have it in the aforesaid forty acres, as also which he hath chosen to build his house upon, and hath fenced in a field, the said ten acres of land, with all ye privileges and appurtenances; to have and to hold to him the said Samuel, his heirs executors and assigns for ever; and we do engage yet we have full power and authority in ourselves, the above said premises to give, and grant, and we the same will warrant, and defend, and the said Samuel, will save and harmless keep, from any person or persons whosoever, laying any right, title or claim legally unto, and we the said Rowland and Joanne Young do promise and engage, for ourselves or heirs executors, and assigns unto our beloved son Samuel Young that we will do and perform, all such act and acts as the law requires, for the better confirmation of ye premises as acknowledgment and all and for the present ratification of the aforesaid premises we the above named Rowland, and Joanna Young, have here unto set our hands and affixed our seals, this eighteenth of April one thousand six hundred eighty and two.
Rowland young Sr (his mark and seal)
Johanna Young (her mark and seal)
Signed sealed and delivered in the presence of:
Arther Bragdon
Daniell Livingstoone (his mark)
Rowland Young Sr, and Johanna Young his wife, came before me and owned this instrument above written, to be ye act and deed.
Edw. Rishworth, Justice of the Peace
A true copy of this instrument above written transcribed and with ye original compared this 23rd of November 1685.
Edw. Rishworth, Recorder
Source: York Deeds Volume IV, Fol. 48
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York, an inhabitant there about 1637, according to the deposition of his son Rowland in petition to Andros in 1688; "brough up a great family of children". Took oath of allegiance to Mass. govt 22 Nov 1652. With wide Johanna he conveyed land 18 April, 1682 to son Samuel: and to sone Rowland 25 Aug 1685, a tract formerly the handstall of thier father Robert Knight, and a tract adjoining lnad of their son Robert Young.
Will prob. 6 Nov 1685, beq to wife Johanna; in her will prob 20 June 1698, she beq to sons Rowland and Job, and daughters Mary Moulton and Lydia Haines.