William Makepeace
- Born: Abt 1633, England 622
- Marriage: Ann Johnson on 23 May 1661 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, British American Colonies 622
- Died: 1681, Freetown, Bristol, Massachusetts about age 48 622
 Noted events in his life were:
• Background Information. 622
William Makepeace was the second son of Emigrant, Thomas Makepeace. He was an apprentice to a "Mr. Hutchingson," a cooper. He was married at Boston, 23 May 1661, to Ann Johnson. He purchased land from Josiah Winslow, Sr. of Marshfield, 8 Apr 1661. It is probable that he and his wife, moved from Boston very soon after they married, and settled on this tract on Taunton River, until he sold it to John Symmons, 16 Dec 1672. This area was later called Assonet, and was included in the town of Freetown, when that town was incorporated in 1683.
Plymouth Colony Records of William's death that were published by a resolve of the Legislature of Massachusetts:
"Swansey, 19 Aug 1681. The deposition of John Clarke, aged about 30 yeers, and alsoe of Robert Hilliard, aged about 30 yeers, both of them witnesseth and saith, that whereas they, with two more, vist., Mr. George May and Timonty Venor, being bound from Mattapoisett to Assonet, where William Makepeace dwelt, as wee were going ouer, the canoe proueing very leaky, and the wind riseing caused a great sea, in soe much that the canoe began to fill, soe that William Makepeace jumpt out of the canoe, with an intent to swim ashore; and wee, with God's mercye, hanged on both ends of the canoe, and escaped, and gott to the shore, where wee gott some refreshment at Hug Cole's house; and after wee were a little refreshed, we went to look along the shore to see whether we could find our hatts, or any other or our things, be wee, seeing William Makepeace floteing dead on the flates, thought it a point of humanity for to get the said Makepeace to the shore, whereynto we did him, and aboue high water marke, and soe left him; and further saith not."
"The aboue written John Clarke and Robert Hilliyard made oath to the aboue written testimony, the day and yeet aboue written.
"Before mee, James Browne, Assistant. :Swansey, the 19th of Qugust, 1681."
"A jury impanelled for the viewing of the Corpes of William Makepeace, and wee, the said jury, haugin dilligently searched him, cannot find either wound, or bruise about him; but according to the best of our vnderstanding, wee find the cause of his death was by drowning." Names of the Jury, Obadiah Browin, Thomas Estakrooke, Cornelius Edwards, Samuell Luther, Job Winslow, Zacheriah Eddey, High Cole, Joshua Lumber, Caleb Lumbert, Caleb Eedey, John Wheten, John Cole, James Cole.
The death of William Makepeace, of Freetown, the son of Thomas Makepeace of Boston, happened in 1681, when he was probably about 48 years of age.
Children of William and Ann Makepeace:
• William, b. 1662/63, m. 2 Dec 1685, Abigail Tisdail
• Mary, m. 1 Mar 1685/86, William Davis
Thomas, m. 10 Jan 1697/8, Mary Burt
• Anne, m. 19 Apr 1689, James Edmester
• Sarah, m. 22 Feb 1710/1, Isaac Hathaway
• Son, who was the father of Gershom Makepeace
~The Genealogy of the Makepeace Family, pp. 24 - 32
William married Ann Johnson on 23 May 1661 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, British American Colonies.622 (Ann Johnson was born in 1644 in Taunton, Bristol, Massachusetts.)
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