Lieut. John Floyd

• BIRTH 20 Feb 1665 Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
• DEATH 7 Jan 1724 (aged 58) Chelsea, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
• BURIAL Rumney Marsh Burial Ground, Revere, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
• MEMORIAL ID 19072843 photos added by Bill Boyington

Lieut. John Floyd son of Captain John Floyd (1637 - 1702) and Sarah Doolittle (c1642 - 1717), married before 1687 Rachel Parker (born 9 March 1664/5), daughter of Jacob and Sarah Parker of Chelmsford, before 1687. He was made a freeman, 22 Mar. 1689-90, while living at Malden, but removed soon after to Rumney Marsh, where he held various town offices and from which he was a representative on the Boston Board of Assessors for several years.

He was one of the founders of the Rumney Marsh church in 1715, and seems to have taken an influential part in local affairs. An indignant neighbor in a letter (Boston Town Papers, vol. 2) calls him "Lord Ruler att Winisimit." John Floyd was at one time a lieutenant in the Malden military company, and is given that rank on his gravestone at Revere, He died 7 Jan. 1723-4, aged 58 (gravestone). In his will, probated in 1724, he mentions son John, who was sole executor, daughters Rachel Pratt, Abigail Tuttle, and Joanna Floyd, and grandsons James and John Nichols. He is buried at Rumney Marsh Burial Ground, Revere Suffolk County, Massachusetts.

John was made a freeman on 22 March 1689/90 while living at Malden, but moved soon after to Rumney Marsh, where he held various town offices. He served as a Malden representative on the Boston Board of Assessors for several years. He was one of the founders of the Rumney Marsh church in 1715, and seems to have taken an influential part in local affairs. An indignant neighbor in a letter (Boston Town Papers, vol. 2) calls him "Lord Ruler att Winisimit."

He also served as a lieutenant in the Malden military company, and is given that rank on his gravestone at Revere. In his will, probated in 1724, he mentions son John, who was sole executor, daughters Rachel Pratt, Abigail Tuttle, and Joanna Floyd, and grandsons James and John Nichols.

Gravestone Inscription

Here Lyes Buried the Body of Lieut. JOHN FLOYD who Decd Janury 7 1723/4 in ye 58 Year of His Age

Inscription
Here Lyes Buried
the Body of Lieut.
JOHN FLOYD
who Decd Janury
7 1723/4 in ye 58
Year of His Age

Parents
Capt. John Floyd 1636–1701
Sarah Doolittle Floyd 1642–1717

Siblings
Abigail Floyd Tuttle 1656–1724
Sarah Floyd Upham 1662–1715
Hugh Floyd 1663–1730
Sgt. Joseph Floyd 1667–1704

Children b in Malden, MA* or Rumney Marsh, MA**

• John Floyd 8/19/1687
• Rachel Floyd 12/25/1690 - 9/23/1746 m Ebeneezer Pratt 27 March 1711
  • Noah Floyd 5/24/1696 - 11/21706
  • Jacob Floyd 9/11/1703 -

Joanna Floyd c1706 - m Samuel Floyd 2/8/1727
Abigail Floyd - m Samuel Tuttle 12/3/1713
Tabitha Floyd Nichols - 1723 m James Nichols 7/9/1719

References

1 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19072843/john_floyd

2 Lynn births: FLOYD, John, s. John, 20: 12m: 1664. CTR (Feb. 20, 1665)

3 Chelsea deaths: FLOYD, John, Lieut., Jan. 7, 1723.4, in his 58th y. G.R.1.

4 Floyd, C. Harold. The Floyd Family of Rumney Marsh, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1909, 17 pgs.