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On 24 February 1639/40, "Henry Neal of Mount Woollystone [Wollaston, now Braintree and Quincy, MA], for 3 heads [three members in his family], [was granted] 12 acres there, upon the covenant of 3s. p. [shillings per] acre." The "covenant" wasn't found.1 Martha was buried on 23 July 16532      

Henry Neal's gravestone

Children of Henry Neal and Martha:2

child b. abt. 1640/1
Martha, b. 16 January 1642/3
Samuel, b. 31 July 1647
Henry, b. 19 March 1648/9
Hannah, b. 2 April 1651, bur. 20 November 1657
Sarah, b. 23 July 1653

Children of Henry Neal and Hannah Pray:3

Abigail, b. 14 February 1656/7,
Hannah, b. abt. 1658/9
Joseph, b. 8 August 1660
Sarah, b. 20 December 1661
Mary, b. 1 January 1663/4
Rachel, b. 1 February 1665/6
Deborah, b. 1 September 1667
Benjamin, b. 7 March 1668/9
Ruth, b. 25 December 1670
Lydia, b. 8 December 1672
Rebecca, b. Fall 1673
Elizabeth, b. 28 June 1675
Rachel, b. abt. 1678
Joanna, b. 27 May 1680

1. Second Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston, 1877 (Boston, MA: 1877), 50.
2. Records of the Town of Braintree, 1640-1793 (Randolph, MA: 1886), 731.
3. "Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988," Ancestry.com database online (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011), Boston>Transcript of County Records, 1643-1660; Vol. 1 Births, Marriages Deaths from 1630-1666, Martha, p. 43, image 25; Samuel, 198, 103; Henry, 198, 103; Hannah 669, 731. Sarah, Records of the Town of Braintree, 1640-1793 (Randolph, MA: 1886), 629.
4. "Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988," Ancestry.com database online (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011), Boston>Transcript of County Records, 1643-1660; Vol. 1 Births, Marriages Deaths from 1630-1666, Abigail, p. 366, image 186; Joseph, 489, 247; Sarah, 491, 248; Mary, 499, 252. Rachel, RTB, 645; Deborah, 646; Benjamin, 647; Ruth, 648; Lydia, 650; Rebecca, 650; Elizabeth, 651; Joannah, 655.