The Ancestors of My Grandchildren

     John was baptized (St. John the Baptist Parish) on 14 Jan 1620/21 at Glastonbury, England.^1,2 He married Mary Jacob c 10 May 1649.^1,2 He died on 16 Jan 1683 in Scituate, Massachusetts.¹

Other information: Acc. to NEHGR-Otis Mary's father was Nicholas; acc. to Migrations, he was Richard Jacob, who immigrated in 1633 to Watertown.^1,3
John Otis and Mary Jacob had nine children, the first 5 born in Hingham, the last 4 in Scituate: Mary (b. 14 Mar 1652/3. m. John Gowin), James (b. 1655 (?), d. young), John (b. 21 Nov 1657, d. 23 Sep 1727), Hannah (22 Mar 1659/60), Stephen (1661, "Tanner." Settled at Scit. and was known as "Captain."), James (b. 1663, d. in Phips's Canada Expedition, 1690), Joseph (b. 1665, bp. 3 Jun 1666; was Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Ply. County, 1703 to 1714. In 1721, he removed with his fam. to New London, CT), Job (b. 1667, "Shipwright." He d. at Scit. 1758, leaving a numerous posterity), Elizabeth (b. 1669 or 1671, m. (1) Oct. 9, 1688, Thomas Allyn, of Barnstable; and (2) Jan. 20, 1698-99, David Loring, who d. in Hingham 27 Jul 1752).^4,5
     In 1661 he moved to Scituate, and he took the oath of fidelity there in 1662. In 1678 he went to Barnstable, where he left his son John, while he moved back to Scituate.¹
John Otis made a will in 1683. It mentions his eldest daughter Mary, wife of John Gowin, his daughters Hannah and Elizabeth, and his sons John, Stephen, James, Job and Joseph.¹