1659 Manasseh Armitage was at Harvard College, according to testimony given in a dispute about the estate of his father, Thomas Armitage. [1]
1659 "The [Oyster Bay] town records contain the following curious paper, bearing date May 26, 1659, signed by Thomas Armitage, who was of Lynn in 1635, from whence he went to Sandwich, and thence he came to Long Island in 1647 and was one of the first settlers in Oyster Bay. In the document referred to, he states that his son Manassah, then a student at Cambridge, had fraudulently obtained his deeds and other valuable writings and that he had forged a deed of gift of his lands; he therefore desires that the facts should be made known and recorded in all the New England colonies in order to guard the public against the impositions of his son. Several affidavits on the contrary are recorded, showing that the father had been heard to say that having married a young wife, and intending to deprive her of his estate, he had conveyed all his lands to his son Manassah. The son graduated at Harvard in 1660, and Farmers' Register states that he died before 1698." [2] [3]
1662 Manassa Armitage witnessed a bill of sale from Robert Coe to John Firman at Newton, Long Island, for a lot on the south side of town between Thomas Robards and John Petit. Dated April 6. [4][NYGBR 63:360]
[1] Benjamin D. Hicks, Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead Long Island N.Y., Vol. 1 (1896), 108, of 108-111, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[2] Charles Werner and Benjamin F. Thompson, History of Long Island, 3rd edition, Vol. 3 (1918), 122, of 122-123, [InternetArchive].
[3] Colonial Collegians: Biographies of Those Who Attended American Colleges before the War for Independence, Harvard (Boston, MA: Massachusetts Historical Society and New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2005, Online database, AmericanAncestors.org, 2008), 414, [AmericanAncestors].
[4] Town Minutes of Newtown: 1656-1688, Vol. 1 (New York: The Historical Records Survey Project, 1940), 21, [HathiTrust].