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Facts and Events
| Name |
John Capen |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1][2] |
26 Jan 1612/13 |
Dorchester, Dorset, England |
| Marriage |
20 Oct 1637 |
Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United Statesto Redegon Clapp |
| Marriage |
20 Sep 1647 |
Braintree, MAto Mary Bass |
| Will[4] |
11 Sep 1691 |
Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States |
| Death[3][4] |
6 Apr 1692 |
Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States |
John immigrated at the age of 21 with his parents and probably his sister Honor. The family settled in Dorchester. John was granted land there in 1634, and land with his father in 1635 and 1636. He received 5 acres out of those grants when his father died in 1638. Over his lifetime, he accumulated enough to land to leave farms and houses to his five sons.
John was a shoemaker, selectman at Dorchester, and town recorder. He married first in late 1637, four years after they arrived, and he and his wife signed the Dorchester church covenant in 1638. They had two children before his first wife died in 1645. While courting his second wife, whom he married in 1647, he wrote his "Sweete-Harte" several letters that were later published by the Dorchester Antiquarian Society. They had 8 children.
John's 1691 will makes complex bequests to his children and grandchildren, dealing with his son's marriage portions, debts to the estate, and various contingencies. It names his children John, Samuel, Bernard, James, Preserved, Joseph, Hannah, and Mary ("who was married to James Foster ... & now God haveing taken her to himselve and leaving a daughter whose name is Silence"). (Two of his daughters had died as infants.)[5]
References
- ↑ Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
1:333.
JOHN, Dorchester, only s. of the first Bernard, came bef. his f. as is thot. was freem. 14 May 1634, m. 20 Oct. 1637, Redigon or Radigan Clap, had Joanna, b. 3 Oct. 1638, d. soon; John, 21 Oct. 1639; and his w. d. 10 Dec. 1645. Next, by w. Mary, d. of Samuel Bass of Braintree, m. 20 Sept. 1647, he had Samuel, b. at B. 29 July 1648; Bernard, 24 Mar. 1650; a d. 6 July 1652; ano. ch. 17 Nov. 1654; Preserved, 4 Mar. 1657; Joseph, 20 Dec. 1658, bapt. 2 Jan. foll. H. C. 1677; Hannah, 1 Oct. 1662; and Elizabeth 29, bapt. 30 Dec. 1666, wh. d. at 13 yrs. He was of ar. co. 1646, deac. 1656, a capt. rep. 1671, 3-8, and d. 6 Apr. 1692. All of this name in our country, it is said, descend. from him. His wid. d. 29 June 1704, aged 72; and her d. Mary m. 22 Sept. 1674, James Foster.
- ↑ Bernard Capen, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995).
vi JOHN, b. 26 January 1612 [ NEHGR 2:80]; freeman 14 May 1634 [ MBCR 1:369]; m. (1) Dorchester 20 October 1637 Redegon Clap [ NEHGR 2:80]; m. (2) 20 September 1647 Mary Bass [ NEHGR 2:80]; daughter of SAMUEL BASS .
- ↑ Capt John Capen, in Find A Grave.
Gravestone photo is not entirely legible, but appears to say April 6 1692.
The memorial entry purports to quote the Dorchester church record: "4th of Aprill 1692 Deacon John Capen a military officer 50 years at length a Capt: & Deacon of ye chh 34 years in His fourscoreth Year Rested from His Labors & Slept in ye Lord."
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 A Sketch from The Early New England Families Study Project, in American Ancestors. (Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
p. 19-23, Spring 2013.
Died in Dorchester, Mass. 4 April 1692, in 80th year; buried in Dorchester North Burying Ground (citing Records of the First Church at Dorchester in New England, 1636-1734)
- ↑ Capen Sketch, American Ancestors, supra. This sample sketch from the Early New England Families Study Project comprehensively surveys the available sources on John Capen.
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