James Redway
Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Catherine Raye Lobb ← Patricia Jane Loomis ← Edward Byron Loomis ← Isaac Hayes Loomis ← Juliette Cordelia Hayes ← Nelson Hayes ← Rhoda Slaughter ← Lois Carpenter ← Amie Carpenter ← Abial Carpenter ← Abraham Carpenter ← Sarah Redway ← James Redway
Family
Children
- John Redwayb. December 10, 1644, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts · d. March 26, 1718, in Rehoboth, Massachusettsm. Mary Ide, December 27, 1677, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts
- Mary Redwayb. May 27, 1646, in Rehoboth, Massachusettsm. Abiah Carpenter brother of Joseph Carpenter (15535) and Samuel Carpenter (15543)
- Martha Redwayb. March 15, 1648, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts · d. Abt. March 1685/1686 near Rehoboth, Massachusettsm. Preserved Abell, September 27, 1667, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts
- b. March 1650 in Rehoboth, Massachusetts · d. Abt. October 1676 near Rehoboth, Massachusetts
- Lydia Redwayb. Mary 30, 1652, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts · d. Abt. November 1676 in Rehoboth, Massachusettsm. John Titus, July 17, 1673, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts
- Rebecca Redwayb. February 1654, in Rehoboth, Massachusetts · d. December 29, 1702, in Woodstock, Massachusetts (now Connecticut)m. John Carpenter in Rehoboth, Massachusetts
In brief
Born Abt. Summer 1637: James arrived in Hingham, Massachusetts with the family of William Bladen as one of his two servants. He worked as planter. He died Abt in Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony (Massachusetts, USA).
Life story
An Indentured Servant's New Life
James Redway arrived in Hingham, Massachusetts, in the summer of 1637 as one of two indentured servants brought over by the Dublin alderman William Bladen, having served him first in Ireland from that June. After his term of service ended around 1640, James settled in Rehoboth, Plymouth Colony, receiving an eight-acre home lot in the mid-1640s and later purchasing additional land from a neighbor, Samuel Carpenter; in 1645 his modest estate made him one of the poorest householders in town. He served Rehoboth as overseer and later surveyor of highways, pledged an oath of loyalty to the crown in 1658 without ever becoming a full freeman, and in 1668 was proposed for membership in the breakaway Baptist church later established at Swansea. James died around March 1684 near Rehoboth; his personal estate was valued at just over 36 pounds.
At a glance
Sources (1)
- Eugene Cole Zubrinsky, “Selected Branches of the Redway Family Tree,” Carpenter Cousins, 2016 (https://www.carpentercousins.com/Redway.pdf : accessed 7 August 2026).