John* Bill, Sr.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: Between 1634 and 1635, Boston, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts

Notes:

BIRTH Based on the date of the birth of his oldest son, John was probably born circa 1590-1595.
DEATH John died in 10m(December):1638 in Boston, Suffolk co., MA. Some sources claim that this death record is a misspelled entry for "James Bill". See the discussion under John Bill, Jr.'s [#5] entry below. However, Richard Tuttle became responsible for Dorothy Tuttle Bill's affairs after her husband John's death -- via a writ of 21 January 1638/9, 1 month after his death. This writ proves to me that the death record is not only correctly spelled, but indicates the death of this John Bill.
ORIGINAL RESIDENCE John is possibly of Ringstead, Northamptonshire, England. The Mary Bill who traveled with Dorothy Tuttle's brother William aboard the Planter is believed to be John Sr.'s daughter and surmised to be from this area[2,3].
MIGRATION While a John Bill is listed as emigrating aboard the Hopewell, Mr. William Bundocke, master, in 1635, he is on the manifest as 13 years of age and so is not this John Bill. Instead, it is believed to be his son John, Jr[1]. The Hopewell voyage mentioned here also carried the Farrington family and embarked from London to New England at the same time as the Planter, which carried the Tuttle clan to America.
MARRIAGE Circa 1615 John married Dorothy TUTTLE, daughter of [not known] TUTTLE & Isabel [surname not known], in England[4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12].

SOURCES 1. Coldham, Peter Wilson, The Complete Book Of Emigrants, (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing co., Inc., 1987), [Coldham], 132.
2. The American Genealogist, [TAG], 60:195.

3. Anderson, Robert Charles, George F. Sanborn, Jr. and Melinde Lutz Sanborn, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England 1634-1635., (New England Historic Genealogical Society), [GreatMig1634-1635], I:289.

4. Torrey, Charles, New England Marriages Prior to 1700., (Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Society). [Torrey].

5. Boston, Suffolk co., MA Vital Records. [BostonVR or BVR], 6.

6. Savage, James A., A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, 1860-1862., (Boston 1860-1862; rpt Baltimore 1955), [Savage], 1:177.

7. [TAG], 30:67.

8. DeForest, Louis Effingham, Our Colonial and Continental Ancestors: The Ancestry of Mr. and Mrs. Louis William Dommerich, (New York, N.Y.: The DeForest Publ. Co., 1930), [Dommerich], 48.

9. Tuttle, George Frederick, The Descendants of William and Elizabeth Tuttle, Who Came from Old to New England in 1635, and Settled in New Haven in 1639. Also, Some Account of the Descendants of John Tuttle, of Ipswich; and Henry Tuthill, of Hingham, Mass., (Rutland, Vt.: Tuttle & Company, 1883), [Tuttle], xxxii.

10. Johnson, Alvin Page, Franklin D. Roosevelt's Colonial Ancestors; Their Part in Making American History, (Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., ca. 1933), [RooseveltAnc], 89.

11. Bill, Ledyard, History of the Bill Family, (New York, 1867), [Bill], vii, 26-8.

12. [Howland, Elza Newton Woolsey], Family Records; Being Some Account of the Ancestry of My Father and Mother, Charles William Woolsey and Jane Eliza Newton, ([New Haven, Conn.: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1900]), [Woolsey], 156.

13. Shurtleff, Benjamin, The History of the Town of Revere, (Boston: 1937), [Shurtleff-Revere], 87.

14. Ibid.

15. Ibid. 43.

16. Ibid. 36.

17. Ibid. 42.

18. [Bill], 28,44.

19. Warner, Frederick Chester, The Ancestry of Samuel Freda and John Warner, 5 vols., (Boston, Mass.: 1949, 1955), typescript, [Warner-Harrington], 581.

20. [TAG], 60:195-6.

21. Hotten, John Camden, The Original Lists of Persons of Quality., (London 1874; rpt. Baltimore 1974), [Hotten], 46.

22. [Coldham], 128.

23. [Hotten], 49.

24. Chelsea, Suffolk co., MA Vital Records, [ChelseaVR], 464.

25. Sibley, John Langdon, Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University, (Cambridge: C.W. Sever, 1873-85), [Sibley's Harv. Grad.], 2:505.

26. New England Historic and Genealogical Register. Vols. 1+, (Boston: New England Historic and Genealogical Register, 1845+), [NEHGR], 38:176.

27. Wyman, Thomas Bellows, The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, 2 vols., (Boston: D. Clapp and Son, 1879), [Charlestown], 209.

28. [Bill], 68.

29. Hassam, John T., The Cheever Family, (Boston: privately printed, 1896), [Cheever], 9.

30. Farwell, John Dennis, Jane Harter Abbott, and Lillian M. Wilson, The Farwell Family, A History of Henry Farwell and His Wife Olive (Welby) Farwell of Boston, England, and of Concord and Chelmsford, Mass., 1605 to 1927, with Twelve Generations of Their Descendants; Also Many Lineages of Allied Families, 2 vols., (Rutland, Vt.: F.H. Farwell, 1929), [Farwell(1929)], 281.

31. [Savage], 1:371.

32. [Dommerich], 24.

33. Hudson, Charles, History of the Town of Lexington, Middlesex County, From its First Settlement to 1860, (2 vols.), (Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1913), [Lexington], 4:337.

34. [Charlestown], 206.

35. Ipswich, Essex co., MA Vital Records. [IVR or IpswichVR], I:85 [Ct. R.].

36. [Shurtleff-Revere], 427.

37. [ChelseaVR], 428.

38. [Shurtleff-Revere], 427-8.

39. Ibid. 428.

40. Ibid. 92.

41. Ibid. 139.

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Immigration:
While a John Bill is listed as emigrating aboard the Hopewell, Mr. William Bundocke, master, in 1635, he is on the manifest as 13 years of age and so is not this John Bill. Instead, it is believed to be his son John, Jr[1]. The Hopewell voyage mentioned here also carried the Farrington family and embarked from London to New England at the same time as the Planter, which carried the Tuttle clan to America.
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John* married Dorothy* Tuttle, (immigrant) about 1615 in England. Dorothy* (daughter of *(not known) Tuttle and Mrs. Isobel* (..) Tuttle, (immigrant)) was born about 1590 in England; died after 1639 in Boston, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. James* Bill, Sr. (immigrant) was born in 1615 in England; died on 1 Feb 1688 in Boston, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts; was buried in Copps Hill Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts.
2. Thomas Bill, (immigrant) was born about 1618 in England; died after 1635 in of, Boston, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts.
3. Phillip Bill, (immigrant) was born about 1620 in England; died after 1635 in of, Boston, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts.
4. John Bill, Jr. (immigrant) was born about 1622 in England; died after 1640 in of, Suffolk Co, Massachusetts.
5. Marie (or Mary) Bill, (immigrant) was born in 1624 in of, Ringstead, Northamptonshire, England; died after 1635 in of, Ipswich, Essex Co, Massachusetts.