Andrew Ford^[1]

1721 - 1790  (69 years)

• Name	Andrew Ford
  Born	2 Sep 1721	Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts   [1]
  Gender	Male
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  _UID	F9E10EA15ABC41A99D3986C83513676BC740
  Died	16 Oct 1790	Plainfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts   [2]
  Person ID	I3906	Strong History
  Last Modified	6 Jan 2018

  
  

  Father	Andrew Ford,   b. 1682, Ford's Farm, Abington, Plymouth, Massachusets ,   d. 12 May 1750, Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts  (Age 68 years)
  Mother	Mercy Reed,   b. Abt 1682, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts ,   d. 4 Feb 1738, Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts  (Age ~ 56 years)
  Married	27 Nov 1706	Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts   [3, 4]
  Family ID	F1157	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah Shaw,   b. 1724, Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts ,   d. Jan 1791, Plainfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts  (Age 67 years)
  Married	25 Nov 1742	Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts   [5]
  Children	1. Mercy Ford,   b. 7 Jun 1744, Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts ,   d. 5 Mar 1787, Cummington, Hampshire, Massachusetts  (Age 42 years)   2. Andrew Ford,   b. 12 Aug 1745, Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts ,   d. 8 Nov 1751, Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts  (Age 6 years)   3. Solomon Ford,   b. 24 Nov 1746, Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts ,   d. 29 Oct 1751, Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts  (Age 4 years)   4. Elijah Ford,   b. 8 Apr 1748, Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts ,   d. 30 Nov 1751, Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts  (Age 3 years)   5. Thomas Ford,   b. 3 Dec 1749, Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts ,   d. Yes, date unknown   6. Daniel Ford,   b. 10 May 1751, Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts ,   d. Yes, date unknown   7. Andrew Ford,   b. 8 Nov 1752, Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts ,   d. Yes, date unknown   8. Sarah Ford,   b. 4 Feb 1754, Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts ,   d. Yes, date unknown   9. Mary Ford,   b. 2 May 1755, Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts ,   d. 6 May 1755, Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts  (Age 0 years)   10. Martha (Patty) Ford,   b. 2 May 1755, Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts ,   d. 12 Sep 1814, Plainfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts  (Age 59 years)   11. Solomon Ford,   b. 26 Nov 1756, Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts ,   d. Yes, date unknown   12. Lydia Ford,   b. 7 Mar 1758, Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts ,   d. Yes, date unknown   13. Elijah Ford,   b. 8 Dec 1759, Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts ,   d. Yes, date unknown   14. Solomon Ford,   b. 20 May 1762, Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts ,   d. Yes, date unknown   15. Seth Ford,   b. 4 Oct 1765, Abington, Plymouth, Massachusetts ,   d. 3 Mar 1847, Massachusetts  (Age 81 years)
  Last Modified	14 Jan 2020
  Family ID	F1156	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Andrew was admitted to the Abington Church in 1741. He was elected to several town offices: Fence Viewer 11 Mar 1745, Leather Sealer 10 Mar 1746, Field Driver 6 Mar 1749. He was paid by the town Treasurer for killing various pests in 1741,1742,1754 and 1765. He had no colonial or Revolutionary service in Massachusetts according to the records, but four of his sons served in the Revolution. Andrew was a yeoman and cordwainer; he may have established the tannery which located on the Ford side of the Southern grant. He inherited his father’s sawmill and received property from his father and grandfather,Andrew Ford. He bought land in Abington from Ebenezer Hunt in 1754 and sold land there to his relatives and neighbors. 1751-1777. It is not certain exactly where he lived in Abington. Two facts were known; first he never lived in his father’s house at 770 Washington Street, which he sold to Joshua Howe in 1760; his house was burned in 1757. Cyrus Nash reports on the latter. “ A child of Andrew Ford’s great great great grandchild of Andrew Ford, the first settler in this place from Weymouth. This child (?) burnt in a house of Mr. Andrew Ford’s which took fire by the children. After found that the house was on fire (Mr. Ford and his wife was absent at the time) the children run out of the house and left a child asleep in the cradle.” Evidently because “he had his house burnt in Nov. last” Andrew was allowed by the vote of the town, 30 May 1758 to draw his rates (taxes) out of the treasury and was paid 2.14, 7.1 by the town treasure, 13 Sept 1758. This house may have been the one at 50 Adams Street, originally owned by Hezekiah Ford;it was remembered only by the site of the cellar hole when Cyrus Nash was writing in the early 1800s. Andrew was placed in the West Abington settlement by Eldridge Payn in his 1896 map. Andrew and Sarah sold 59 acres with buildings in this area to Micha and John Hunt in 1777, Sept 1, when he was called yeoman of Plantation no. 5. He lived in the area organized as the district of Plainfield in 1785. He bought and sold land, according to the Hampshire County Deeds. Andrew and Sarah together with their children Andrew Jr. and his wife, Sarah, Elijah and Solomon Ford and Martha Robinson were original members of the First Church of Plainfield, 31 Aug 1786. Andrew may have built Ford’s Mill mentioned in Hampshire County Deeds, Books 2 page 152, 1788, when some of his sons deeded a share in it to Jeremiah Robinson. - The Descendants of Andrew Ford of Weymouth, Massachusetts

  
  

• Sources

  [S544] Massachusetts, Town Birth Records, 1620-1850. Birth date: Sep 2, 1721 Birth place: Abington [S386] The Descendants of Andrew Ford of Weymouth, Massachusetts, Page 40. [S385] Francis Cooke of the Mayflower; The First Five Generations, Page 218. [S537] Massachusetts, Compiled Marriages, 1633-1850. Marriage date: 27 Nov 1706 Marriage place: Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts [S362] Vital records of Abington, Massachusetts, to the year 1850, Vol. II Marriages and Deaths, Page 74.