-Robert Wixam was born on 29 May 1623 in Oxfordshire, England. His father William died in 1630. He was taken on the Winthrop Fleet as a 7-year old indentured servant to Captain William Hedge, arriving in Plymouth County in 1630. In 1638 Captain Hedge sold Robert’s remaining indenture service to Governor Thomas Prence. Thomas lived at Eastham and was the third Governor of Plymouth Colony following William Bradford who had arrived on the Mayflower in 1620. Thomas Prence had arrived in November of 1621 on the board the “Fortune”.  In a 8 November 1638 memorandum, “ Mr. William Edge doth acknowledge that for and in consideration of 12 pounds sterling paid to him by Gov. Thomas Prence he hath assigned and sett over all his right and interest in the service of Robert Wicksen which by indenture he might serve the said Mr. Edge, to serve the same with the said Mr. Prence, now Governor of new Plymouth, according to his said indenture, and the covenants therein containing and expressed on both parts. And whereas part of his tyme was past with Mr. Edge, the said Mr. Edge has to pay his wages for that tyme, and Mr. Prence for the ensuing tyme afterwards, to the end of the said indenture expressed.”  Robert Wixam married Alice Aspinet, daughter of Chief Nauset Aspinet of the local Nauset Indian Nation. Robert Wixam’s daughter married the grandson of Thomas Prence. He referred to his son-in-law in his Will as being “helpful in advise and management” in assisting his widow Alice. Robert was sworn a freeman n 5 June 1651, at the age of 28.
 
Robert and Alice’s, son William Barnabas, was given the Indian name “Pompwono” and spent a lot of his life living in “Indian Territory”.  He married Sarah Remick, a son of Christian Remick and Hannah Foster. Their son Joshua Wixam married Elizabeth chase, daughter of William Chase and Dorcas Baker. One of his descendants, Joseph Wixson, and his wife Deborah Townsend moved to Upper Canada in 1798 and lived just down the road from my great-great grandfather John Udell in concession 9 in Pickering.

On page 33 of by Delores Bird Carpenter’s “Early Encounters - Native Americans and Europeans in New England -From the Papers of W. Searas Nickerson” it states” a person from the Department of American Archealogical at Andover wrtoe, in part “A man named Wixon, who claims to represent the Cape Cod Indians appeared at the Providence hearing.”