Francis Willoughby (1613–1671) Explained

Francis Willoughby
Office:	Deputy Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Term Start:	1665
Term End:	1671
Predecessor:	Richard Bellingham
Successor:	John Leverett
Birth Date:	1613
Birth Place:	Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
Death Date:	April 10, 1671 (aged 58)
Death Place:	Charlestown, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Profession:	merchant

Francis Willoughby (1613 – April 10, 1671) was the son of Colonel William Willoughby (1588-1631) of London, England. A merchant and shipwright, he immigrated to Charlestown, Massachusetts on August 22, 1638 and served as selectman (1640-1647), representative in 1649 and 1650, and was elected an assistant (representative in the colonial assembly) in 1650, 1651 and 1654. Willoughby returned to England in 1651 where he was appointed commissioner of the navy^[1] at Portsmouth and served in the Third Protectorate Parliament in 1659, representing Portsmouth. He returned to Massachusetts in 1662 and was deputy governor from 1665 until his death in 1671.^{[2] [3] [4]}

Further reading

• Book: Salisbury. E. Elbridge. Family histories and genealogies: A series of genealogical and biographical monographs on the families of MacCurdy, Mitchell, Lord, Lynde, Digby, Newdigate, Hoo, Willoughby, Griswold, Wolcott, Pitkin, Ogden, Johnson, Diodati, Lee and Marvin, and notes on the families of Buchanan, Parmelee, Boardman, Lay, Locke, Cole, De Wolf, Drake, Bond and Swayne, Dunbar and Clarke, and a notice of Chief Justice Morrison Remick Waite. With twenty-nine pedigree-charts and two charts of combined descents.. 1892. Press of Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor. New Haven. 524–525, 548.

Notes and References

1. Web site: The 'Fathers of the Dockyard'. History in Portsmouth. 19 September 2017.
2. Web site: Yale Indian Papers Project. 19 September 2017.
3. Greenwood. Isaac J.. "The Willoughby Family of New England". The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. 1876. 30. 72–76. David Clapp & Son. Boston.
4. Book: Frothingham. Richard. The history of Charlestown, Massachusetts. 1845. 141. C.C. Little and J. Brown. Boston.