♂Robert Waterman

Robert Waterman (died before 1677) was a colonist of Marshfield, in Plymouth Colony^W, who lived and died on a parcel of land near the mouth of the North River. He was the eighth great-grandfather of Frederic Roger Curtis (1928–2007), through his son John Waterman (1642–1718).

He is known from one court record. At the colony court held at Plymouth on 6 March 1676-77, “John Waterman, of Marshfeild, eldest son and heire to Robert Waterman, late of Marshfeild aforsaid, deceased” complained that John Mendall and John Phillipps, both of Marshfield, were unlawfully holding about twenty-five acres “wheron the said Robert Waterman liued, and wherof hee died seized and posessed”, land that had descended to John as his heir. The jury found for the defendants. The John Waterman born at Marshfield on 19 April 1642, who later lived at Plympton, is most likely that eldest son, since no other John Waterman born to a Robert Waterman is known; the court record itself does not give the heir’s age. An online family tree quotes the Marshfield record of that birth as “John Watterman ye sonn of Robert Watterman born the 19 aprill 1642”. Online family trees also make Robert a man born in England about 1608 who married Elizabeth Bourne at Plymouth in December 1638 and died at Marshfield on 10 December 1652. The records read for him give neither his wife’s name nor his birth nor the date of his death.