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- On 2 Jan 1650-1 he married at Hartford, Connecticut Martha Chapman, widow of Samuel Kitcherell. According to a declared statement on 15 Sep 1659 by Nathaniel and Johana Reskue, she was born at Digswell, Herts County, England and came over with the sister of Major Hezekiah Haines. She died on 17 Dec 1662.
(Hezekiah Haynes, d 1693, was the second son of John Haynes, a devout Puritan of Copford Hall in Essex who emigrated with his family to New England in 1633 to escape the Laudian persecution and subsequently became governor of Massachusetts and Connecticut. Wikipedia)
John Haynes: In the early 1620s, he purchased Copford Hall, near Colchester in Essex; this estate alone was reported to produce £1,100 per year.[5]
Essex was also a Puritan center, and Haynes was greatly influenced by the pastor Thomas Hooker, who was a close friend.[5] In about 1630, John Winthrop and John Humphreys, two of the founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, extended invitations to Hooker and Haynes to join them in the New World.[6] Apparently leaving his minor children behind, Haynes emigrated in 1633, sailing aboard the Griffin with Hooker.[6] They settled first at Newtowne (later renamed Cambridge), where Haynes was the guest of Thomas Dudley until his own house was ready.[7]
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Griffin was the name of a 17th-century ship known to have sailed between England and English settlements in Massachusetts. Several historical and genealogical references show the Griffin making such journeys in 1633 and 1634. The 1633 journey left at Downs, England and landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts on September 3. This 1633 journey carried religious dissidents, including Thomas Hooker,[1] John Cotton, and others totaling 200 people. The ship Griffin weighed in at 300 tons and she saw the birth of at least one child, Seaborn Cotton, during the 1633 voyage.[2] In 1634 the Griffin carried Anne Hutchinson to the Massachusetts colony. Huthcinson's oldest son had preceded her the previous year, also on the Griffin.
The Puritan minister Seaborn Cotton, son of John Cotton, of the First Church in Boston. He was born at sea, August 12, 1633, on the ship Griffin which brought his parents to America
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