Joan Purchase

Female 1578 - 1653  (75 years)


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  • Name Joan Purchase 
    Born 25 Mar 1578  Dorchester, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Gender Female 
    AFN 9J3S-16 
    Died 26 Mar 1653  Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5
    Person ID I835  James Henry Martineau
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2016 

    Married 31 May 1596  Dorchester, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 6, 7
    Children 
     1. Bernard Capen,   b. Abt 1597, Dorchester, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     2. James Capen,   b. Abt 1599, Dorchester, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Sep 1628, Dorchester, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 29 years)
     3. Ruth Capen,   b. 7 Aug 1600, Dorchester, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
    +4. Susannah Capen,   b. 5 Apr 1602, Dorchester, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13 Nov 1666, Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 64 years)
     5. Dorothy Capen,   b. Abt 1603, Dorchester, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 18 Sep 1675  (Age ~ 72 years)
     6. Honor Capen,   b. Abt 1605, Dorchester, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1680, Westfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 75 years)
     7. Hannah Capen,   b. Abt 1607, Dorchester, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     8. Elizabeth Capen,   b. 1609, Dorchester, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Jan 1678, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 69 years)
     9. John Capen,   b. 26 Jan 1613, Dorchester, Dorset, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Apr 1692, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 79 years)
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2016 
    Family ID F330  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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  • Notes 
    • She is said to have been the daughter of Oliver Purchase(Savage. Vol 1, p. 333. N.E. History and Gen. Register,]. Vol. 2, p. 80, where reference is made to the Capen Family Record, taken from an old copy of the New Testament.) Person submitting info: Mary L. W.Wells, Logandale, Nevada

  • Sources 
    1. [S13] Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, NEHGR (Reliability: 3).
      record of Bernard Capen, her husband: She was born abt 1578 based on age at death; she died at Dorchester, 26 Mar 1653, aged 75 [NEHGR 2:80]

    2. [S137] Dorchester Parish Register.

    3. [S136] Genealogy of the Capen Family, Vol 2, p. 80 (Reliability: 3).

    4. [S15] Rockwell Family in America, Henry Ensign Rockwell, (Boston:Rockwell & Churchill, publishers 1873), Chp. IV, p. 99 (Reliability: 3).
      She was aged 75.

    5. [S129] Capen Familiy Record ; Extracted from a leaf in an old New Testament, printed in London, 1615, by Robert Barker, Englished by L. Tomson, (The copy was made in facsimile by Jacob H. Loud, Esq., of Plymouth, corresponding member of the Society, who remarks that) (Reliability: 3).
      "dyed y* 26 March 1653, y* night before, aged 75 yeers"

    6. [S15] Rockwell Family in America, Henry Ensign Rockwell, (Boston:Rockwell & Churchill, publishers 1873), Chp. IV, p. 98 (Reliability: 3).

    7. [S211] Cambridge or Wrentham Branch (Reliability: 3).
      Barnard Capen maryed Joan ye dafter of Oliuer Purchis ye yeer of Lord, 1596, on Munday, in whitson week.