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John Talby, Jr.

John Talby, Jr., son of John Talby and Dorothy (-?-) died after 1657 and was characterized by Rose Taulbee as a "wastrel," a description for which she laid no foundation but which seems substantiated by the following from Perley's History of Salem Massachusetts:

John Talbey, Dec 24, 1655, was to be put out as a servant to Robert Morgan or some other man for one year, at the expense of the town.  Jan 29, 1655-6, Henry Cooke agreed to take him for a year, the town to supply him shirts, cloth to make a coat, covering for a bed and some things to make a bed, Cooke to have eight bushels of Indian corn.  Aug. 4, 1656, the selectmen "Ordered that John Talbey being commonly noted for a person spending his time idly and unprofitably: we think it meet that he should be sent to the next magistrate to be employed accordingly (provided for such persons)."  Aug 22, 1657, the town voted that George Corwin and Jacob Barney appear at the Ipswich court to inform it of John Talbe, and advise about putting him in the house of correction at Ipswich. Lawrence Southwick was paid twenty shillings for keeping Talbey and seventeen shillings for things laid out for him.

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