Robert PADDOCK

  General Notes:

Robert Paddock was born 1583-4 according to American records. He is
recorded as being born in Stephenstown, Balrothery Parish, County
Dublin, Ireland, younger son of John Paddock, blacksmith of
Stephenstown and later of Tullygovan near Killany, Barony of Ardee,
Couth Louth, Ireland by his wife Jane Jennings.

Robert died intestate at Plymouth, July 25, 1650 according to Plymouth
Colony Records. Though he made no will, his widow Mary confirmed in
November 1650 that on his death bed Robert had granted the guardianship
of his son John to Captain Thomas Willet, who was later Mayor of
NewYork. "Whereas Robert Padduk of Plym: lately decease did on his
death bed give and dispose his sonne John Paddock aged about give years
unto Captaine Tho: Willet to bee att his desposing and under his guidance
as his own child: These presents doe therefore wittness that Mary
Padduck the wife of said Robert Padduck doth condesend unto and allow
of the said acte of her Said husband in the disposing of her Said sonne
John to Captain Willet as aforesaid In Witness of the promises shee the
Said Mary hath hereunto sett her hand and given way to have this present
said writing entered upon publick Record." Mary Paddock then signed this
by making her mark (an M). Robert inherited the blacksmith shop of his
father in Kallany in the will of his mother made at Killany, May 15, 1607.

The name of the ship and the year of his emigration remain unknown. He
may well have been in Plymouth by 1632, there having been two of his
children entered in the Plymouth Colony Records born before 1636. In
Plymouth Colony Robert was a blacksmith and at one time a constable.
Robert Paddock was the Patriarch of the Paddock family in America.

Robert Paddock was one of the Pilgrim Fathers, he was one of the early
settlers of Plymouth, and was a smith by trade. He had a son, Zachariah,
born in 1636, who was the ancestor of the subject of this sketch. Robert
Paddock was probably a relative of Captain Leonard Peddock who was
master of one of the ships that came to Plymouth in 1622, it being
frequently the case in those times that names were mis-spelled. This is
the origin of the name of Peddock's Island at the entrance of Boston
Harbor. Branches of this family at the Revolutionary period were to be
found in various parts of New England, New Jersey, and South Carolina.
Adino Paddock was the son of John and Rebecca (Thatcher) Paddock; was
born March 14, 1727, and was baptized in the First Church, Harwich,
March 31, 1728.

Robert married Mary TRINE. (Mary TRINE was born in 1612 in Hertfordshire, England and died in 1650 in Duxbury, Plymouth Co, MA.)