The Minor Family of Somerset

Source Fifty Great Migration Colonists, John Brooks Trelfall. p
ub 1992 p 479
In the summer of 1630, at the age of 45, John Warren and his wif
e Margaretand their four children joined the Winthrop Fleet an
d sailed for America. There were about 700 who came in eleven s
hips and arrived in June and July. The first vessels landed a
t Salem on June 13th and following Days.
John Warrensettled in Watertown on Lexington Street, near Waver
ly. On 18 May 1631, hewas admitted Freeman. In 1635, he and A
braham Browne were appointed to lay out all highways and see tha
t they were repaired. He was a selectman in 1640.His homestea
d lot of 12 acres was bounded West by the highway, east by Willi
am Hammon, North by John Brisco, and south by Isaac Stearns. H
e also owned in 1642 seven other lots amounting to about 166 acr
es. In Oct 1651, he andThomas Arnold were each fined 20 shilli
ngs for an offense agains the laws concerning baptism. On 14 Ma
rch 1658/9, he was warned for not attending publicworship, bu
t "old Warren is not to be found in town." On 4 April 1654, h
ewas fined for neglect of public worship 3 pounds 10 shillings
. (14 Sabbathsmissed at 5 shillings each.) On 17 May 1661, th
e houses of "old Warren and goodman Hammond" were ordered "to b
e searched for Quakers". His dissenting religious views were ap
parently like those of Nathaniel Brisco, Sr. who returned from W
atertown to England and Thomas Arnold who moved to Providence
. They were pehaps Baptists. His will was made a few Days befo
re he died. He signed by mark, apparently too feeble to do othe
rwise.