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| Birth: | 21 Jan 1619/20 in Great Bowden, Market Harborough (Leicestershire) England |
| Death: | 1689 in Mystic Village (New London) Connecticut Colony |
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| Mary (a) Eland (Wife) b. 1633 in (Yorkshire) England
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| Marriage: | 1651 in Wethersfield Village, Connecticut Colony |
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 Samuel (1) Fish, Captain b. 1656 in Stratford Village, Connecticut Colony
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| Martha (b) Stark (Wife) b. 1658 in New London Village (New London) Connecticut Colony
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| Marriage: | 1674 in Groton Village (New London) Connecticut Colony |
| Divorce: | 1680 |
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| Hannah (c) Palmer (Wife) b. 15 Jun 1634 in Charlestown Village, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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| Marriage: | 25 AUG 1681 in Stonington (New London) Connecticut |
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Individual:
"John Fish of Stonington, Connecticut was the second son of Robert and Alice (Fish) Fish of Market Harborough.
1619, June 20: He was baptized at East Farndon, England with his brother, son of Thomas and Mary (Sprigge) Fish. [Research of John Dean Fish and Phil Bateman of WorldConnect]
1621: He was baptized in infancy and doubtless received an education in the school at his home village of Market Harborough, which had a wide reputation as a preparatory school for the Universities. After his father's death he and his older brother Thomas came to New England, and perhaps his younger brother Joseph. Thomas became an owner of land. was married, and was the father of a family, and this put him upon the records at Portsmouth, Rhode Island as early as 1643."
"We do not know just when John Fish came to this country from Great Bowden parish in Leicestershire, England, but he apparently did not settle down as a landlord or head of a family. He found his way to Wethersfield and Mystic, and was there in 1651 and married the Ireland girl. He was twelve or fourteen years older than she. Soon thereafter they went to Stratford in the New Haven colony, where he acquired land and established his home. At about the same time Robert Burrows and his family moved to New London and acquired a large plantation on the Westerly Bank of the Mystic River. John Fish was seemingly a man of quick temper, and spoke with a strong "North Country" dialect or accent. Doubtless that is the reason why his wife's family name is on the records as "Eland" instead of Ireland".
1655: " . . . he sold his lands to one Wilcockson, and they moved onward to Groton and, as tradition says, their youngest son, Captain Samuel Fish, was born there last year, at the home of Mrs. Robert Burrows, his grandmother." [Research of Phil Bateman of WorldConnect]
"The Fish Family in England and America" by Lester Warren Fish; The Tuttle Publishing Company; Rutland, Vermont; 1948 (929.2 F532-2 LAPL) (FH 29.0 SR)
John Fish, colonist, surveyor, school teacher, colonial soldier. According to the late John Dean Fish, genealogist and historian, who was a descendant of this John, and spent considerable time in England studying the origins of the Fish Family and the early life of Fish immigrants who settled in America, there were two John Fishes who came to America. In an article in the "New York Genealogical and Biographical Record" LIII:55-8; 1928, he states that there was a John Fish of Mystic in 1654. Be believes this John was a brother of Thomas Fish who was granted land at Portsmouth, Rhode Island in 1643. He does not state when this John landed in America, or where, and there is no record of an
immigrant John Fish ever having been in any of the Rhode Island Colonies. (The first white man to climb Mount Washington in New Hampshire was Darby Field of the Plymouth Colony in 1642, accompanied by two Indian guides. It was not named until 1784.)
There was however a John Fish, brother of Nathaniel and Jonathan, who landed at Lynn, Massachusetts, previous to 1637, and moved to Sandwich, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, about 1637. These three brothers were first cousins of Thomas Fish of Portsmouth and his brother John. Jonathan Fish removed to Newtown, Long Island, in 1659, while Nathaniel remained at Sandwich and reared a family, and there is a history of John and his family at Sandwich, as evidenced by an inventory of November 18, 1663. But there is a definite historical record of a John Fish who between 1654 and 1686 owned land in the towns of Stratford, New London, Mystic, Stonington and Groton, all towns about the Thames River on the Long Island Coast of Connecticut.
The Rev. Frederic Denison, between 1859 and 1874, wrote us a very full and accurate genealogy of the descendants of this John Fish, which was brought up to date in 1935 by John Dean Fish. The Rev. Mr. Denison located John first in 1655 at Mystic and at Groton, Connecticut, and stated that John Fish who landed at Lynn, previous to 1637 settled with his wife and three children at Groton, in 1655.
Frances M. Caulkins, in her "History of New London," locates John Fish at that place in 1655, and she states that he landed at Lynn in 1637, but gives no further account of him until 1655. Aaron Starke and John Fish were of Mystic in 1654. She states that a John Fish was living at Stratford, a town farther to the west, prior to 1655, but how long be made his abode there is not stated. He sold his home lot and six acres of land there, Sept. 25, 1655, to John Willcockson, the same year that Caulkins says he appeared at New London, with wife and three children, John, Samuel and Jonathan, but she was doubtless mistaken in saying that Samuel came with them, as according to the epitaph on his gravestone he was born at New London, in 1656. How long the family lived at New London is not known, but records show that John had lived at Stonington long enough in 1668 to become a resident, which required two years in those days.
The following biographical record, prepared by John Dean Fish, is authentic:
1654: " . . . and probably for several years previously, John Fish had lived at Stratford, Connecticut. [He does not state whence he came.] He was young and impulsive. His house and lot where he lived was at the northerly end of the present village, and bounded on the west by Main Street, and on the north and east by Ferry Road, and on the south by land of Daniel Tetterson. It is marked on the map drawn by Rev. Benjamin L. Swan and printed in the Hawley Record on page 432, where it is marked as belonging to John Willcockson. In the autumn of 1654, a controversy began between him and some men in the town growing out of some unwarranted accusations which he made against them. This trouble was carried into the courts and very probably was the cause of his selling all his property at Stratford a year later to John Willcockson, and leaving the town. There are no records of births to John Fish and wife at Stratford. Samuel was born after he left there. The records of the Stonington Congregational Church show the baptism of Samuel, John and Mary, children of John Fish, all in adult life, on March 13, 1680. In 1668, he was one of forty-three inhabitants of Stonington. A home lot was layed out to each of these upon condition that they build upon it within six months and inhabit it. A twelve acre home lot was granted to John Fish, being allotment No. 5, and was retained by him through life. His son Samuel, under date of December 26, 1710, conveyed this lot to James Dean, who on November 8, 1711, conveyed it to Ebenezer Searles as shown by the Stonington Land Records. On August 6, 1764, he acted as Town Clerk at a town meeting.
During the Narragansett War, or the Expedition against the Indians under King Philip, in 1675-76, the Connecticut Colony sent about 300 volunteers from among her settlers, and a number of friendly Pequot Indians. Both John and his son Samuel were among these volunteers, and about 1700, when the town of Voluntown was set apart to be allotted to the Indian War Volunteers, there were grants of land made for each of them, and as John Fish had died Samuel was allotted his father's acreage. In his will, dated August 7, 1730, Samuel bequeathed his own grant to his son Samuel5, and divided his father's grant between his sons Moses and Aaron. Two grandsons of Samuel settled on these lands at Voluntown, and their descendants are still owners thereof.
1679, August 22: John Fish was unanimously chosen school master of Stonington, to instruct the children in reading, writing, arithmetic and grammar, such as shall be inclined.
1680, December 5: He was admitted a member of the Congregational Church.
He was a land surveyor, and laid out many of the public lands, as the Stonington records bear witness. His brother-in-law Gershom Palmer was associated with him in 1680 and 1681. By grant and purchase he became the proprietor of considerable land at Stonington and at Groton, and in other towns nearby, considerably over one thousand acres.
1663, November 18: M. E. Tracy of Los Angeles, in searching the records of Sandwich, Massachusetts, found that the inventory of the estate of John Fish of Sandwich was made.
1664, May 3: The inventory of the estate of John Fish was exhibited at Plymouth Court, mentioning the widow, Cecilia Fish, Inventory taken by Nathaniel Fish. Now this would appear to be the John of the brothers, Jonathan, Nathaniel and John, who settled there from Lynn. His death must have occurred a short time before November 18, which would have made him possibly 51 years old, assuming he was born bout 1612. Tracy also found in "The Pioneers of Massachusetts" by Pope, that there was a son Nathaniel, born to John and Cecilia Fish, November 27, 1648, and a son Caleb, born and died in 1649. In the Sandwich records was also found a son John, born to John and Cecilia Fish, who died before October 28, 1669.
Note: After studying these findings and the extensive work of John Dean Fish, it is the opinion of the author that this John Fish was one of the three brothers that landed at Lynn, that he remained at Sandwich with his brother Nathaniel, and contrary to the opinion of the other historians and genealogists mentioned above, that the John Fish who died at Stonington, Connecticut, was the John who was brother of Thomas of Portsmouth, Rhode Island, as John of Sandwich died about 1663, while John of Stonington died about 1687, or 1689.
Of John of Connecticut it was written, "He lived in the days when men were famous according as they lifted up axes upon the thick trees and bravely did battle with the wild beasts of the wilderness." His lands were obtained from "goodman Robert Burrows," lying along the eastern part of Fort Hill on the north, along the northern slope of Pequot Hill extending to the Mystic, and embracing about one thousand acres. He was the second son of Robert and Alice (Fysh) Fyshe, and was baptized at Great Bowden, England, January 21, 1620/21. He died at Stonington, Connecticut, at about 70, probably in 1689. [Research of John Dean Fish and Phil Bateman of WorldConnect]
Marriage Note; John married three times: (1st) Mary Ireland of the famous family of that name of England. It would appear that his three sons and one daughter were born to his first wife. [Research of John Dean Fish and Phil Bateman of WorldConnect]
Marriage Note: It seems that he had no children that survived except by his first wife, who was supposed to have been a Miss Eland of an ancient and knightly family of Yorkshire, England. (In another place John Dean Fish names Mary Ireland as his first wife. The discrepancy may be in the spelling.)
John Fish married (2nd) Martha Stark, who proved unfaithful and absconded with Samuel Culver, in 1674. 1680: John Fish obtained a divorce and married again.
John married three times: (2nd) Martha Stark, who deserted him and ran off with another man [Research of John Dean Fish and Phil Bateman of WorldConnect]
1680: John Fish divorced Martha Stark.
"New England Marriages Prior to 1700" compiled by Clarence Almon Torrey; p. 266; The Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc.; Baltimore, Maryland; 1985 (974.0 NEa/Marriage SCGS) (Randall Research Library)
1681, August 25: John Fish married (3rd) Hannah (Palmer) (Hewitt) Steery at Stonington, Connecticut.
"New England Marriages Prior to 1700" compiled by Clarence Almon Torrey; pp. 266 and 367; The Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc.; Baltimore, Maryland; 1985 (974.0 NEa/Marriage SCGS)
1681, August 25: Hannah married (3rd) John Fish. [Research of Nancy Ann Norman]
"Descendants of Captain Thomas Hewitt of Stonington, Connecticut" by Virginia Hewitt Watterson; p. 1; published by the author; Carlsbad, California; 1996 (929.273 H497 LDS) (929.2 H611 LAPL)
John Fish married three times: (3rd) Hannah (Palmer) (Hewitt) Steery. [Research of John Dean Fish and Phil Bateman of WorldConnect]
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