Immigrants Richard CHURCH and Anne MARSH 11th great grandparents

Richard Church (1610-1667) the immigrant, born February 8, 1610, married, May 18, 1627, Anne Marsh (1610-1684) daughter of Edward Marsh, of Braintree.
They arrived in Boston and settled, originally in Newton, Massachusetts. In 1636 he and his family went with Rev. Thomas Hooker to settle the area now know as Hartford, Connecticut. Church an original proprietor of Hartford 1637, received, in 1639-40, a home-lot on the east side of the road to the Cow Pasture (North Main St.) ; freed from watching and warding, etc. March, 1655; chosen chimney-viewer, 1648; surveyor of highways, 1655. Removed to Hadley with "the withdrawers," in 1659; d. there, Dec. 16, 166 1.

[Church resided on the east side of Burr street (originally known as the road from “Centinel Hill to the cow Pasture,” according to W. L. Porter.) “Centinel Hill” is that part of Main street at the head of the present Morgan street, and was originally much higher than it now is. The “Cow Pasture” was in the vicinity of the present Keney Memorial tower, and it was directly east of the “Cow Pasture” that Richard Church lived, his land probably extending down to the present Windsor street.]

He was a participant in the great controversy which divided the first Church in Hartford, and he sided with the party which opposed the Rev. Samuel Stone, as his signature to a letter to Mr. Stone’s remonstrance shows. This letter bears date of March 12, 1655, at which time Richard Church was in Hartford. Probably, in 1659, he removed to Hadley, with the “withdrawers,” and died there, December 16, 1667. Anne Church his widow, died March 10, 1684, aged 83.

Children of Richard Church and Anne Marsh are:

i.Edward Church, b. 26 Feb 1627/28, Braintree, Essex, England; d. 10 Sep 1704, Hatfield, Hampshire, Ma.; m. Mary Hopkins, Abt. 1654, Hartford, Conn.; b. Abt. 1637, Hatfield, Hampshire, Ma.; d. 30 Sep 1690, Hatfield, Hampshire, Ma.

ii.Mary Church, b. 02 Nov 1632, Hadley, Hampshire, Ma.; d. 09 Jun 1695, Hadley, Hampshire, Ma.; m. Isaac Graves, 1645; b. Abt. 1620, Hatfield, Hampshire, Ma.; d. 19 Sep 1677, Hadley, Hampshire, Ma.

iii.Samuel Church, b. 1636, Hadley, Hampshire, Ma.; d. 13 Apr 1684, Hadley, Hampshire, Ma.; m. Mary Churchill, Bet. 1665 - 1666, Hadley, Ma.; b. 24 Mar 1638/39, Wethersfield, Hartford, Ct.; d. 1690, Hadley, Hampshire, Ma.

iv.John Church, b. 09 May 1636, Hartford, Ct.; d. 16 Oct 1691, Hartford, Ct.; m. Sarah Beckley dau. of richard Beckley, of New Haven, 27 Oct 1657, Hartford, Ct.; b. 1636, New Haven, CT; d. 1689.

Possibly several more children.

Ancestry Chain: Richard CHURCH Immigant b.1610, Mary CHURCH Immigrant b.1611, John GRAVES-11861 b.1664, Isaac GRAVES-6235 b.1688, Jerusha GRAVES-4004 b.1717, Jerusha COOLEY-3693 b.1738, Sylvanus BRONSON-3690 b.1769, Mary BRONSON-3182 b.1806, Martin Luther ENSIGN-144 b.1831, Harriett Camilla ENSIGN-31 b.1859, George Ensign SMITH-28 b.1898, Camilla SMITH b.1926, Lark, JR.

NOTE: There were two immigrants named Richard Church. They have been confused because they were born and died near the same time. Richard Church (1608-1668) husband of Elizabeth Warren (daughter of the Mayflower passenger) arrived in New England with the Winthrop fleet. He lived his life in Plymouth, Salem, and Hingham Massachusetts.

THOMAS HOOKER 11th great-grandfather - The Great Migration Begins

THOMAS HOOKER ORIGIN: Rotterdam MIGRATION: 1633 in the Griffin [WJ 1:129] FIRST RESIDENCE: Cambridge REMOVES: Hartford 1636 OCCUPATION: Minister. CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: On 11 October 1633 Winthrop reported a "fast at Newtown, where Mr. Hooker was chosen pastor, and Mr. Stone teacher, in such a manner as before at Boston" [WJ 1:137]. When Hooker moved to Hartford the church went with him, and he remained pastor there until his death. FREEMAN: 14 May 1634 [MBCR 1:369]. EDUCATION: Matriculated at Cambridge from Queen's College 1604, migrated to Emmanuel, B.A., 1607-8; M.A., 1611 [Venn 2:403; Morison 382-83]. His inventory included "books in his study" valued at £300. OFFICES: Arbiter, 7 May 1640 [RPCC 11]. ESTATE: Granted one acre for a cowyard at Cambridge, 4 November 1633 [CaTR 6]. Granted five acres of land and another three acres of land, 5 January 1633/4 [CaTR 7]. Granted "five acres of meadow ground in the mead next Watertown weir" and "thirty acres of salt marsh on the south side Charles River," 2 April 1635 [CaTR 12]. In the divison of meadow land on 20 August 1635 granted a proportional share of zero [CaTR 13]. Granted three acres, 8 February 1635/6 [CaTR 17]. In the 8 February 1635/6 list of "houses" in the town, "Mr. Tho[mas] Hooker" held four [CaTR 18]. In the Cambridge land inventory on 1 May 1635 Thomas Hooker held four parcels of land: "in the town one house with garden and backside about one rood"; "in Cowyard Row one cow house and yard about one acre"; "in Wigwam Neck about five acres"; and "in the Long Marsh about three acres" [CaBOP 3-4]. On 2 May 1636 "Thomas Hooker of the New Towne" sold to Nicholas Danforth "about one acre of land being the lot of Edward Hopkins" [CaBOP 38]. There is no entry in the Hartford land inventory of 1640 for Thomas Hooker, but his name is mentioned frequently as an abutter in other entries [HaBOP passim]. In his will, dated 7 July 1647 and proved apparently in 1649, "Thomas Hooker of Hartford" bequeathed to "my son John Hooker my housing and lands in Hartford, aforesaid, both that which is on the west, and also that which is on the east side of the River, to be enjoyed by him and his heirs forever, after the death of my wife, Susanna Hooker, provided he be then at the age of one and twenty years, it being my will that my said dear wife shall enjoy and possess my said housing and lands during her natural life"; to "my son John my library of printed books and manuscripts" provided he "deliver to my son Samuell" books to the value of £50, or the cash equivalent, and "if my son John do not go on to the perfecting of his studies, or shall not give up himself to the service of the Lord in the work of the ministry, my will is that my son Samuel enjoy and possess the whole library and mansucripts, to his proper use forever; only, it is my will that whatever manuscripts shall be judged meet to be printed ... and however I do not forbid my son John from seeking and taking a wife in England, yet I do forbid him from marrying and tarrying there"; to "my son Samuell, in case the whole library come not to him, as is before expressed, the sum of seventy pounds"; to "my daughter Sarah Hooker" £100 at marriage or at age twenty-one, "the disposal and further education of her and the rest, I leave to my wife"; to "the two children of my daughter Joannah Shephard deceased, and the child of my daughter Mary Newton, to each of them ten pounds"; "my beloved wife Susanna Hooker" to be executrix and to receive the residue of the estate; "my beloved friends Mr. Edward Hopkins and Mr. William Goodwyn" to be overseers [Hartford PD Case #2841; CCCR 1:498-501; Manwaring 1:16-18]. The inventory of the estate of "Mr. Thomas Hooker," taken 21 April 1649, totalled £1136 15s., including £450 in real estate: "housing and lands within the bounds of Hartford on both sides the rive," £450. There was also "an adventure in the Entrance," £50 [Hartford PD Case #2841; CCCR 1:501-02]. BIRTH: About 1586 (based on matriculation at Cambridge), son of Thomas Hooker of Marefield, Tilton, Leicestershire [DSGRM 5:122-24]. DEATH: Hartford 7 July 1647 [MHSC 4:8:544-45]. Eliot wrote This visitation of God was exceeding strange, it was sudden & general, as if the Lord had immediately sent forth an angel, not with a sword to kill, but with a rod to chastize, & he smote all, good & bad, old & young, or as if there were a general infection of the air; which went from north to south by degrees infecting all, yea, such as were on the seas near our coasts were so infected & smitted. And this is remarkable, that though few died, yet some did, and generally those that died were of our choicest flowers, & most precious saints, among others that were then taken to rest was that worthy & blessed light Mr. Hooker, who having a cold & preached twice on the Sabbath (Mr. Stone not being at home), and ministered both the sacrament the Lord's supper in the forenoon & baptism in the afternoon, he was so over spent, & his spirits sunk, that he never could recover them again [RChR 190]. MARRIAGE: Amersham, Buckinghamshire, 3 April 1621 Susannah Garbrand [Bucks Marr 4:13]. She married (2) after 7 December 1654 and before January 1669/70 WILLIAM GOODWIN [NEHGR 55:25]. (At a Particular Court held on 7 December 1654 Walter Gray was confessed to and was punished for "his gross abuse & evil in slandering Mr. Will[iam] Goodwyn & Mar. Hooker in charging them with the act of adultery" [RPCC 134-36].) CHILDREN: i JOANNA, b. say 1622; m. by about 1638 as his second wife Rev. Thomas Shepard of Cambridge [Young's First Planters 554-55]. (Although Young annotated this section of Shepard's memoirs to indicate that the marriage took place in October 1637, Shepard himself says the marriage was in the "year after those wars in the country," meaning the Pequot War of 1637.) ii MARY, b. say 1624; m. by about 1646 Rev. Roger Newton (she had one child by the date of her father's will, 7 July 1647; see TAG 14:99-103). iii ANNE, bp. Great Baddow, Essex, 5 January 1625/6; bur. Chelmsford, Essex, 23 May 1626. iv SARAH, bp. Chelmsford, Essex, 9 April 1628; bur. Chelmsford 26 August 1629. v SARAH, b. say 1630; m. by 1649 Rev. John Wilson, son of JOHN WILSON [NEHGR 61:128; Sibley 1:65-66]. vi JOHN, b. say 1631; returned to England and married there, Savage says he became a parish priest. vii SAMUEL, b. say 1633; Harvard 1653 [Sibley 1:348-52]; m. Plymouth 22 September 1658 Mary Willett [PCR 8:21], daughter of THOMAS WILLETT. viii Son, d. Cambridge late in 1634 [WP 3:177]. ASSOCIATIONS: One sister of Thomas Hooker, perhaps named Anne, married GEORGE ALCOCK and another sister, Dorothy, married John Chester, and had with him LEONARD CHESTER. Thomas Hooker spent a few years in the household of Francis Drake of Esher, Surrey, and made such a great impression that in his will of 13 March 1633/4 Drake made a bequest to"Johanna Hooker, who now is in New England," the daughter of Thomas Hooker [PCC 43 Seager]. This Francis Drake was cousin of the JOHN DRAKE who made a brief appearance in New England in the early 1630s, and who also received a bequest in his will. COMMENTS: At court 5 March 1644[/5] Walter Grey was found guilty of "laboring to inveigle the affections of Mr. Hooker's maid" [RPCC 33]. On 1 June 1654 Samuel Allen was ordered to pay Mistress Hooker three loads of wood for the one he confessed he stole from her [RPCC 127]. The last four children, according to the estimates made here, were born during a short span of time. Perhaps Samuel was born after the son who died in 1634. BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: Mather wrote a lengthy biographical sketch of Thomas Hooker [Magnalia 332-52]. Brief accounts of the life of Thomas Hooker have been published in the Dictionary of National Biography and the Dictionary of American Biography. In 1977 Frank Shuffleton wrote a comprehensive, full-length biography of Hooker [Thomas Hooker: 1586-1647 (Princeton 1977)].

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Ancestry Chain: 11th great-grandfather Rev. Thomas HOOKER Immigrant b.1586, Sarah HOOKER b.1630, Sarah WILSON b.1650, Elizabeth TORREY b.1685, Elizabeth GREEN b.1705, John ROUNDY b.1726, Uriah ROUNDY b.1756, Shadrach ROUNDY b.1789, Almeda Sophia ROUNDY b.1829,Charles PARKER b.1853, Laura Elizabeth PARKER b.1889, Kirt DeMar WOOD b.1923, Lark, TR.

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Also 1st cousins 13 times removed, The common ancestor is John HOOKER b. abt 1524, +Thomas HOOKER b.1553 [half brother of *Mary b.1567], 11th great-grandfather Rev. Thomas HOOKER Immigrant b.1586,

The common ancestor is John HOOKER b. abt 1524, 12th great-grandmother *Mary HOOKER b.1567 [half sister to +Thomas b.1553], Rachel GREENE b.1596, Rachel PERNE Immigrant b.1619, William RAWSON b.1651, Nathaniel RAWSON b.1689, Nathaniel RAWSON b.1716, Abner RAWSON Rev.WarVet. b.1764, Amariah RAWSON b.1787, Adaline RAWSON b.1811, Mary DUNN b.1833, Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859, George Ensign SMITH b.1898, Camilla SMITH b.1926, Lark, JR.

JOHN DRAKE 10 great grandfather - The Great Migration Begins

JOHN DRAKE 18 October 1630: applied for freemanship [MBCR 1:80]. 26 May 1631: John Reading of the Inner Temple, London, to John Winthrop, writing about the will of Isaac Johnson: "You write you have sent it over, John Drake sayth he copied it to that purpose, but none can be heard of" [WP 3:37]. 13 March 1633/4: Bequest in will of Francis Drake of Esher, Surrey, to "John Drake, my Cozen William Drake's sonne, twenty poundes to be sent unto him into New England" [Waters 580-81]. COMMENTS: The John Drake of the third item above, and almost certainly of the other two, was son of William Drake of Wiscombe Park, Devonshire, a junior line of the prominent Drakes of Ashe of the same county. The letter of John Reading shows that a John Drake had recently been in New England, at or shortly after the death of Isaac Johnson (September 1630); this John Drake, then, would have been in New England at the time of requesting freemanship in October 1630, but gone by the time the first group of freemen were admitted in May 1631. Presumably he returned on the Lyon in March 1630/1. He may have returned to New England shortly thereafter, or Francis Drake may simply have lost track of his cousin at this time. In any case, he is not the John Drake who appears briefly in Taunton, Plymouth Colony, late in the 1630s, moves to Windsor, Connecticut, and dies there in 1659 [TAG 63:193-206, 65:87-88]. Douglas Richardson has discovered that John Drake of Windsor derived from Hampton in Arden, Warwickshire [Frederick L. Weis, Ancestral Roots ..., 7th edition (Baltimore 1992), p. 197]. The Great Migration Begins Sketches PRESERVED PURITAN Ancestral Chain: John DRAKE Immigrant b.1585 and Elizabeth ROGERS Immigrant b.1581, John DRAKE Immigrant b.1625, Mary DRAKE b.1666, Catherine MARSHALL b.1699, Catherine FOWLER b.1723, Lydia NOBLE b.1768, Horace Datus ENSIGN b.1797, Martin Luther ENSIGN b.1831, Harriett Camilla ENSIGN b.1859, George Ensign SMITH b.1898, Camilla SMITH b.1926, Lark, JR. John and Elizabeth ROGERS DRAKE are gr. gr. grandparents of Governor Oliver WOLCOTT signer of the Declaration of Independents.