♂John Waterman

John Waterman (19 April 1642 – 14 September 1718) was a colonist of Plympton, in the old Plymouth Colony^W, who served as a deacon of the church. He was the seventh great-grandfather of Frederic Roger Curtis (1928–2007), through his son Robert Waterman (1681–1750).

His father was most likely Robert Waterman of Marshfield: a Plymouth court record of 6 March 1676/77 names “John Waterman, of Marshfeild, eldest son and heire to Robert Waterman, late of Marshfeild aforsaid, deceased”, and no other John Waterman born to a Robert Waterman is known, though the record does not give the heir’s age or place him at Plymouth. His mother is not known. An English baptism of 1669 at Buckland, Hertfordshire, to a Robert Waterman, has been offered for him but belongs to another man, since this John was married by 1665. His birth on 19 April 1642 at Marshfield and his death on 14 September 1718 at Plympton rest on a grave index and a compiled family chart rather than on town records. He married Ann Sturtevant (1647–1719) on 7 December 1665; the Plymouth register records him “married to Ann Sturtevant” on that day. Their son Robert was born in 1681. A story attached to his profile in an online family tree records that he was ordained a deacon of the Church of the Covenant at Plymouth on 27 November 1698, and the grave index names him “Deacon John Waterman”. A Massachusetts probate record places him at Plympton about 1712, by then in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, and his estate went through the probate court at Plymouth. He was buried at Plympton, and his wife outlived him.