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Husband: John LOKER [I13616]
Born: 1611 in England
Married: 1650
Died: 18 JUN 1653 in Sudbury, Massachusetts
Father: Henry 'alias' Riddlesdale LOKER
Mother: Elizabeth UNKNOWN
Spouses:
Wife: Mary DRAPER [I13618]
Born:
Died: UNKNOWN
Father:
Mother:
Spouses:
Children
01 (M): John LOKER [I29289]
Born: 1650 in Sudbury, Massachusetts
Died: UNKNOWN
Spouses:
02 (F): Mary LOKER [I09497]
Born: 28 SEP 1653 in Sudbury, Massachusetts
Died: 28 OCT 1735 in Groton, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts 1
Spouses: Jonas 'Capt.' PRESCOTT
Additional Information

John LOKER:

Notes:

Genealogical Dictionary of New England Settlers
Loker, John, Sudbury, had, bef. 1652, m. Mary Draper.
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The will of John Loker of Sudbury, Mass., dated June 17, 1653, mentions his wife, unnamed, who may marry again; one child under twenty-one years named John Loker; his brother Henry Loker; his brother-in-law Robert Davis and sister Bridget Davis; and continue*; "My will is that my house and lands shall be equally divided betweene my brother Henry Loker my sister Davis and my sister Newton and I doe hereby 'make my wife my brother Henry Loker & my brother-in-law Robert Davis to be my executors. ... In witness, whereof I have here unto act my hand the 17th day of June, 1653 this is the Marks of John Loker set with his own hand in ye presence of Joseph Parmenter, Hugh. Griffen."
One of the appraisers was Robert Davis. The will entire is below.
John Loker and wife Mary (Draper) had born in Sudbury, September 28, 1653, a daughter, Mary Loker, posthumous child; who with the above son, John, Jr., were all his children. He died June 18, 1653. There is no will of Henry Loker of Sudbury. In 1678, he deeded his whole
estate, "for love," to his son and daughter

Jacob and Elizabeth Moore [Middlesex Co. Deeds, voI. 10, p. 93], and Jacob Moore, in 1697, deeded the same 130 acres, to his eldest don Jacob, for a like consideration [same, vol 37, p. 517].
Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Loker, married May 29, 1607, Jacob Moore, had
twelve children, and died December 14, 1690.

Footnotes
  1. Samuel A. Green, Epitaphs of the Old Burial Ground in Groton, Massachusetts [2078] (Little, Brown & Co., Boston, MA, 1992).
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