He was born around 1607 in Kent, England (according to his son's diary) and settled in Cambridge, Massachussetts. There are two William Mann/Man records on passenger lists from that time period, one arr. Virginia 1635 (age 25) and one arr. Rhode Island 1636. (Unclear what this means, since Rhode Island wasn't established until 1636.) The latter seems more likely to be our guy. However, a William Mann was granted land in Cambridge in 1634. Could he have acquired the land while still in England? Or did our guy come on an earlier ship?
He was probably a farmer, as there as several records of him purchasing land.
He was married twice, first to Mary Jarred (b. England), with whom he had one son, Samuel Man, b. 1647 in Cambridge. Mary died in 1657(?), when Samuel was ~10. After Mary's death he married a widow, Alice Tidd, either that same year or in 1661 (there are conflicting records). He had no more children. He died in 1662, when Samuel was ~15, and Alice died in 1665.
Samuel attended Harvard, became a teacher and a minister, and lived in Wrentham MA. He married Esther Ware when he was 25 and she was 18, and they had 11 children.
Sources
Sibley (1881) Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University, Vol. II (this is really about the son, Samuel):
A book called Mann Memorial:
Sources which I need to track down:
- Diary of his son, Rev. Samuel Mann (1647-1719)
- The Great Migration, Volume V, by Robert Charles Anderson- A book by Anna Maria (Tolman) Pickford (1895)
Posted by a Ronald Mann to the boards on Ancestry.com. Relevant to us is the James Mann, ancestor of our William Mann:
John 1495 is the son of Sir John Man of Broad Oak, Keeper of the West Gate at Canterbury. He is the same person(?) as John Le Man of Beawisberg, Kent s/o Saloman or(?) poss John 1430) the s/o Saloman) whose lineage can be traced through LeMan and/or Lyman a very long way back in time.
The brother to John 1494 above is a James Man(n) who married Dorothy Vidal and this lineage can be traced to William Mann (abt 1607) who was the first person of the name Mann in New England (Scituate, Mass), and is the father of the very prolific Rev Samuel Mann, and the eventual patriarch of a (probable) VERY high percentage of the Manns now in the USA, including HORACE MANN (educator) and THOMAS MANN (writer).
From zman293 on Ancestry.com:
William Man arrived in the new world and settled In Cambridge, MA. Some sources claim he was born in 1607 and died in 1662. He must have married late in life as his only child, Samuel Man, was born July 6 1647, when William would have been about forty years old. It is said that William was the youngest of eleven children.
He was a proprietor of Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1634. His will was dated December 10, 1661, proved April 1, 1662. unsigned, bequeathed to his wife and only son Samuel.
From The Great Migration, Volume V by Robert Charles Anderson:
WILLIAM MANN
ORIGIN: Unknown.
MIGRATI ON: 1634 (based on grant of land at Cambridge on 4 August 1634[CaTR9]).
FI RST RESIDENCE: Cambridge.
EDUCA TION: His inventory-included "an old Bible and 4 old'books" valued at 6s. [Rodgers 2:75].
OFFICES: Cambridge fenceviewer, 13 March 1653[/4], 10 February 1655/6 [CaTR 104, 109].
His inventory included "a musket[,] rest and bandoliers" valued at 14s. [6d.], "a sword and belt" valued at 7s. [6d.] and "a pound of powder
and bullets" valued at 2s. 4d. [Rodgers 2:75].
ESTATE: On 4 August 1634, "Will[iam] Man" was granted three acres in the Westend Field in Cambridge [CaTR 9]. In the 20 August 1635 division'-of the undivided meadow ground, "William Man" received a one-half share [CaTR 13]. In the 8 February 1635/6 list of "those men who have houses in the town at this present," "William Mann" was credited with one house in the Westend [CaTR 19]. In the Cambridge land inventory of 1639, "William Man" held two parcels: "bought of John Moore one house lot upon the Cow Common"; And "in the New Lots next Manotomie given by the town two acres of planting ground" [CaBOP 64]. In the Cambridge land inventory of 6 September 1642, "William Man" held five parcels: "on the Common one dwelling house with about a rood of land"; "on the plain toward Menotamye two acres of land"; "in the West Field three acres"; "in the Fresh Pond Meadow two acres & h a l f ; and "in the Great Marsh four acres" [CaBOP 101-2].
In an undated list of "the lots given out by the town on the south side of Charles River, in two several divisions," "William Man" received Lot #56, four acres each in the-lower division and the upper division [CaBOP 332]. On 8 March 1642/3, "Will[ia]m Man" sold to Nathaniel Sparhawk "four acres ... on the south side of Charles River being the fifty-sixth lot in the lower division of lots there" [CaBOP 122]. In 1662 "Will[ia]m Man" had three acres laid out on the south side of Charles River in the second squadron [CaBOP 141].
In the 1645 grant of "lots on the west side of Monotamye River, "William Man" received "three acres & h a l f [CaBOP 128]. On 4 June 1652, "William Man" was granted seventy acres at Shawsheen[CaTR98].
In the 1645 grant of "lots on the west side of Monotamye River, "William Man" received "three acres & h a l f [CaBOP 128]. On 4 June 1652, "William Man" was granted seventy acres at Shawsheen[CaTR98].
In his will, dated 10. .December 16611 and proved3 1 April 1662, "William Man of the abovenamed town [Cambridge]" bequeathed to "my loving wife ... her dwelling in the house I now dwell in, with use of the barn and outhouse, and the land and orchard adjoining thereto, for her wood and firing to enjoy the same, during her widowhood, or in case,she shall marry again then to hold the same for six years ..., also I do give to my loving wife one full third part of all my moveable estate, my debts and funeral - charges .being paid before such division, also I do give, her some clothes that were my former wife's, also I do give her, my said wife, all those 'particular parcels of household stuff (remaining in my hands at my decease) which were brought by her to me at our marriage"; "the residue-and remainder of my estate "... to my son and only son, Samuel Man"; "my trusty and well beloved 'friends Thomas Chesholme and.Jno. Fessington" to be sole" executors [Rodgers 2:73-74, transcribing MPR 2:49-51, Case"# 145.72], -,
The inventory of "the estate of William Man. of Cambridge deceased the 7th of the first month [March] 1661/2," taken on an unknown date, totalled £126 5s. Id., of which.£69 15s. was real estate: "a dwelling house,-one barn and hovels and.about one acre of land and half a acre of swamp adjoining to the house, with all -town rights," £36; "five acres of land ... whereof three acres is broke up lying in the West Field, Robart Holmes..on south;side, John Cooper on the north," £9; "in the West Field three.acres, of broke up land ..., Abraham, Errington on the south side, the highway on the north," £9; "in the plain two acres broke up, Ben[jamin] Crackbon east, Frances More on the .West," £4. 10s.; "in the plain two acres broke;up, Mr. John Glover on the west, Robart Parker on the east," £10; and "at Fresh Pond Meadow two acres one half," £1 -5s. [Rodgers
2:74-77 , transcribing1 MPR 2:52-57, Case #14572].
On 13 January 1662[/3], "Thomas Chesholme and John Fessenden, administrators as abovesaid," sold to "John Paulfere of the town abovesaid, joiner, ... all the abovenamed;messuage or tenement" [MLR 2:296]. (The first half of this deed, in the microfilmed version, is illegible, thus preventing us from learning just which parcels , the executors of the will of William Mann were selling. The sale-was probably made to provide funds to pay Samuel Mann's expenses at Harvard College.)
BIRTH: About 1607 [DeHR 6:127 (probably derived from the journal of Samuel Mann)]. DEATH: 7^March 1661/2 [MPR 2:49].
MARRIAGE: (1) 1643 Mary JarredlfDeHR 6:127 (probably derived from the journal of Samuel-Mann)]. (2) Cambridge 11 June 1657 Alice Tidd, widow of JOHN TIDD
{1637, Charlestown} [Wyman 945; Stevens-Miller Anc 125-26].
CHILD: With first wife * SAMUEL MANN,-b. Cambridge 6 July 1647 [DeHR 6:127 (probably derived from the journal of Samuel Mann)]; Harvard College 1665 [Sibley 2:190-93]; m. Dedham 13 May 1673 Esther Ware [DeVR 17], daughter of Robert Ware [NEHGR 41:21-24].
COMMENTS: Samuel Mann kept a journal, which is probably the source of some of the vital dates above. In that journal he gave an account of his father's migration [DeHR 6:127]: My father William Man was born in the other England in the county of Kent (in what town I cannot, learn) about the year of Lord 1607 being the youngest of eleven children of what age he was and in what year he came into the land & in what, year I cannot learn, only*this much he was one of the first comers into the Colony of the Massachusetts. The vagueness of this statement and the exaggerated claim; that his father was "one. of the first comers" may encourage us to be doubtful of the other information he provided of events that occurred prior to his birth.
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In 1895 Anna Maria (Tolman) Pickford compiled an account of this immigrant and his son [DeHR 6:124-29].
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