Robert Eldred (Eldredge) of Yarmouth and Chatham, Cape Cod, Massachusetts and Some of His Descendants

Robert Eldred (Eldredge) (d. bef. 1682), the immigrant, was born in England, the son of Robert and Joan Eldred of Winfarthing, Norfolk County. He married Elizabeth Nickerson, the eldest daughter of William and Anne Busby Nickerson of Norwich, England. The Nickerson family came to Salem, Mass. in 1637. Robert Eldred was in Yarmouth, Cape Code, Mass. in 1639 under the contract of service with Nicholas Simpkins. By 1666 he had settled on a farm in Chatham. Descendants live in Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island and elsewhere.