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Individual:
Note: Banks, "The English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers".
JOHN FAUNCE:
Birth: 1602/1610 possibly,Purleigh,Essex Co.,England
Death: 29 NOV 1654 Plymouth,Massachusetts
Notes:
Came to Plymouth in the Ann in 1623 on the "Anne". Probably from Purleigh, Essex
County, England. In 1623 he was given 2 acres of land "beyond the brooke
to Strawberie-hill" in Plymouth, shown as "Manasseh [] John
Fance". [Shurtleff 12:5] Source: "The Faunce Family" by James Freer
Faunce, in NEHGR 114:115-125 (1960). He died either 29 Nov 1653 or 29
Nov 1654. C.H. Pope in "Pioneers of Massachusetts" says John died 29
Nov1653; and inventory was taken 15 Dec 1653 (Plymouth Records, NEHGR
5:259). Savage in his "Genealogical Dictionary" says it was the son John
who died 29 Nov 1654. Goodwin in his "The Pilgrim Republic" p. 243 says
John died when his son Thomas was eight years old, which would be in late
1653, and since his last child Joseph was born 14 May 1653, this is the
date accepted by James Freer Faunce. Shurtleff 8:16 transcribes Plymouth
records as "29th of Nouember" in the 1654 register.
The inventory of his estate was taken 15 Dec 1653 and subsequently
exhibited 7 March 1654 on the oath of the Widow Patience Faunce, widow of
John Faunce, deceased. "His grave is unknown and his son, Elder Thomas
Faunce, told Dea. Ephraim Spooner that the graves of his parents were
leveled and sown over in order to conceal them from the Indians." [NEHGR
114:117]
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FAUNCE, JOHN -John Faunce arrived at Plymouth in 1623 on the Anne. Banks
guessed that he came from Perleigh, County Essex because he could find
the surname only in that area, but others have found it elsewhere. He was
a Purchaser and on the 1633 freeman list. Faunce married Patience
Morton, daughter of George and Juliana (Carpenter) Morton. He served on
juries, and obtained varicnis Land grants (PCR, passim). His house was
located in the southern part of Plymouth near the Eel River. He, died 29
November I (PCR8:16) His childrenaregiven in moore Families, p. 244-47,
and the line further carried forward by James F. Faunce, Faunce Family
History and Genealogy (Akron, Ohio, 1967). One of John's sons was the
famed Elder Thomas Paunce, who lived to be almost 100, dying in 1746. A
well known sto ry originated in a talk given in the nineteenth century at
Plymouth's Old Colony Club that at age ninety-five Elder Faunce was
driven to town in an open wagon from Eel River and taken to Plymouth
Rock. He told the people gathered there how he had talked to John
Howland and his wife, John Alden, Giles Hopkins, George Soale, Francis
Cooke and his son John, and Mrs.Cushman, born Mary Allerton, who "died
but yesterday." All of these, he said, told him that upon that rock they
had stepped ashore, and John Winslow's wife, Mary (Chilton), had come
there on her seventy-fifth birthday and laughed as she stepped on the
rock and said she was the first woman to have stepped on it. This story,
relayed to posterity verbally by one who claimed to hear it from a person
who had been in Elder Faunce's audience that day, is as far back as we
can go to authenticate that what we call today Plymouth Rock was in fact
the first land at Plymouth touched by the Mayflower passengers. For
other information on Faunce's descendants, see James Freer Faunce, "The
Faunce Family, " NEHGR 114:115; Rachel E. Barclay, "The Faunce Famfly:
Addenda and Corrections," NEHGR 116:188; and Rachel E.
Barclay,"Correction to Faunce Article," NGSQ 48:184.
Source: Plymouth Colony Its History & People 1620-1691 by Eugene Aubrey
Stratton
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John Faunce joined the Pilgrims who, on or about 10 July 1623, sailed
from England in the 140-ton ship Anne of London, William Peirce, Master.
He was not a member of the original Scrooby group, but was a "stranger"
recruited by the merchant adventurers who financed the colony and a
friend of the Francis Cook family. The people coming on the Anne and the
Little James started from England in the ship Paragon in the late fall of
1622. "But meeting the tempestuous storins in the Downs, the ship is so
bruised and leaky that in fourteen days she returned to London, was
forced to be put into dock, one hundred pounds laid out to mend her, and
lay six or seven weeks to 22 December 1622, before she sailed a second
time. But being half way over, met with extreme tempestuous weather
about the middle of February, which held fourteen days, beat off the
round house with all her upper works, obliged them to cut her masts and
return to Portsmouth, having 109 souls aboard with Mr. John Pierce
himself. Upon which great and repeated loss and disappointment he is
prevailed upon for 500 (pounds sterling) to resign to the company his
patent, which cost him but ;50 pounds. And the goods, with the charge of
passengers in the ship cost the company; 640 pounds, for which they were
forced to hire another ship, the Anne. This ship arrived in July.
Probably the above explains why the passengers on this ship were heavily
in debt when they arrived".
On the same ship was Patience Morton whose father, George Morton
(1585-1624), was a merchant of a well-to-do Roman Catholic family of
Harworth, near Scrooby, England, who organized the Ann and Little James
company and died impoverished not long after landing. Also on board was
her mother Juliana Carpenter Morton (15841665) of Wrington, near Bath,
Somersetshire, daughter of Alexander Carpenter, a member of the Ancient
Brethem. Juliana was thirty-eight years old when they landed in Plymouth.
That John Faunce was a member of the company that came on the Anne is
made certain by a record in Plymouth in 1623 when land was distributed by
the drawing of lots and thus recorded: "The fates of their grounds which
came over in the Shipe called the 'Anne' according as they were cast
1623. . . . It should be noted John Faunce owned two acres in common with
Manasseh Kempton who came from Colchester, County Essex".
In the year 1625 the Company of Adventurers, who had financed Plymouth
Colony, largely deserted the Colony in regard to its supply and care as
it had not been a profitable venture. The following year the Plymouth
Planters sent one of their number, Isaac Allerton, to England to make
terms with the Adventurers. He returned in 1627 to England to make terms
with the Adventurers, and came back in the same year with an agreement by
which the Adventurers sold to Allerton and such other planters as he
designated all of their rights in the enterprise. The planters agreed,
and John Faunce was one of the company called Purchasers. He was also
one of those who agreed to transfer to a small group called the
Undertakers all the rights of outside trade. This was done so that the
Undertakers might assume a more direct responsibility and see that the
sums owing to the Adventurers were collected and paid.
Source: The Faunce Family by James Freer Faunce, of Akron, Ohio.
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