Pike
Hannah Pike (Pyke) was supposedly born around 1632 in England, married Maturin Ballou, and died in Providence, RI in 1715. She was the daughter of English immigrant Robert Pike and Catherine (Unknown). Robert and his future son-in-law, Maturin Ballou, were each granted 25 acres in Providence in 1646 and then admitted as a freeman in 1658.
Warren
Mary Warren, who married John Youngs, was the daughter of Thomas Warren of Southold, England. Mary was married first to a Gardiner--her father’s will mentions his daughter’s daughter, Mary Gardiner, who would have been a child at the time of his death.
I don’t know how uncommon it would have been for a woman to emigrate without her parents or a husband, so I suppose she might have been married in England and thus come to America with her husband, a Gardiner. She was born around 1600 and died in 1678.
Boyse/Boyce
Joanna Boyce (Boyse), born in England to John Boyse and Joanna Stowe, likely came to America with her sister’s family or possibly as a newlywed with her husband, Peter Prudden. Her birth, marriage, and death dates are undocumented. She was not married yet in 1631 when she appears in her mother’s will (in England) and her first child was born in 1640 in Connecticut, and her will was written in 1681, so those dates provide a window when events occurred. Despite the lack of records for those important dates, following her husband’s death in 1656, she is found in the Milford court records and they show she was a woman who knew how to manage her affairs and was not hesitant to claim what she felt was rightfully hers.
Bateman
Elizabeth Bateman was born around 1631 in England to William Bateman. She married Henry Lyon in 1652 in Connecticut.
There are multiple William Batemans in the records of the period. In one instance in 1630 there was an inquest for a William Bateman and a second William Bateman sat on the jury. A William Bateman was made a freeman of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1631 and a William Bateman of Concord was made a freeman in 1641. It is thought these two are not the same individual because one person would not need freeman admittance twice. I did see references to the fact that a William Bateman’s admittance was revoked in 1634, but indicated the reason was unknown. If the admittance was revoked, there is the possibility it is one person. There is some support for the revocation as I found in my research on the freeman’s oath:
At the General Court held at Boston, May 14, 1634: It was agreed and ordered, that the former oath of freemen shall be revoked, so far as it is dissonant from the oath of freemen hereunder written; and that those that received the former oath shall stand bound no further thereby, to any intent or purpose, than this new oath ties those that now take the same.
Maybe some intrepid researcher will decide this is an interesting avenue to pursue and uncover more details linking these two Batemans….
Winthrop
On the other hand, lots of details are known about the Winthrops, in fact so much is so readily available, I’ll just provide an overview here.
Martha Joanna Winthrop was born in England in 1630 to Henry Winthrop and Elizabeth Fones. She was sickly, especially after her marriage to Thomas Lyons and then the birth of her only child, Mary, in 1649. She died in Greenwich, CT in 1653.
Henry Winthrop died a few months after Martha was born. He traveled to America, leaving his pregnant wife behind and drowned the day after he arrived in July 1630. Martha and her mother Elizabeth, still in England, eventually immigrated to America where Martha’s grandfather, John Winthrop, was governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
I’m saving the good stuff for my next post—about Martha’s mother and the Fones line—when I start on my 9x great-grandmothers.
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