Joseph Strong

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt. Birth: 1701; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Death: 1772; Alt. Death

Joseph married Elizabeth Strong on 12 May 1724 in Coventry, Tolland, CT. Elizabeth (daughter of Preserved Strong and Tabitha Lee) was born in 1704; died in 1792. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Joseph Strong was born on 13 Apr 1726 in Coventry, Tolland, CT; died on 16 Dec 1726 in Coventry, Tolland, CT.
2. Elizabeth Strong was born on 2 Feb 1728; died in 1767.
3. Joseph Strong was born on 19 Mar 1729; and died.
4. Tabitha Strong was born on 3 Apr 1731; and died.
5. William Strong was born on 2 May 1733; and died.
6. Asa Strong was born on 12 Mar 1735; and died.
7. Elnathan Strong was born on 23 Sep 1736; and died.
8. Abigail Strong was born on 19 Jan 1739; and died.
9. Benajah Strong was born on 13 Oct 1740 in Coventry, CT; died on 25 Nov 1809 in Coventry, CT.
10. Eunice Strong was born on 11 Apr 1743; and died.
11. Martha Strong was born on 30 Jul 1745; and died.
12. Mary Strong was born on 30 Jul 1745; and died.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt. Birth: 1672; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Death: 1763; Alt. Death

Notes:

Ancestor of Lady Diana Spencer

Joseph married Sarah Allen in 1694 in Northampton, Hampshire, MA. Sarah (daughter of Nehemiah Allen and Sarah Woodford) was born on 22 Aug 1672; died before 15 Sep 1724 in Northampton, Hampshire, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt. Birth: 1672; Alt. Birth

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt. Birth: 1636; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Death: 1689; Alt. Death

Thomas married Rachel Holton on 10 Oct 1671 in Northampton, Hampshire, MA. Rachel (daughter of William Holton and Mary Winche) was born about 1645 in Northampton, Hampshire, MA; died in 1714 in CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Nehemiah married Sarah Woodford in 1664 in Northampton, Hampshire, MA. Sarah (daughter of Thomas Woodford and Mary Blott) was born in 1649 in Hartford, Hartford, CT; died in 1712 in Northampton, Hampshire, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt. Birth: 2 Sep 1649, Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Death: 31 Mar 1713, Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts; Alt. Death

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact 1: Tanner; Fact 1
• Emigration: 30 May 1630, On Mary And John
• Fact 2: 8 May 1635, Returned To America On Hopewell; Fact 2

Notes:

MARY AND JOHN - 1630

Master Thomas Squeb.

Sailed from Plymouth, 20 March 1630.

The day of the sailing was the Saturday before Palm Sunday.

Landed Nantasket, Massachusetts, 30 May, 1630.

400 tons.

140 passengers

40 - 50 crewmen

Ship owned by Roger Ludlow

The ship was suppose to land at the Charles river but Capt. Squeb refused to navigate the Boston Harbor, probably because of it's islands, sandbars and shoals. He had the passengers disembark at Nantasket Point.

June 1630 - John Winthrop sent for Capt. Squeb at Nantasket, where the "Mary and John" lay. He did not record what was said. "[John] Winthrop seemed to think he had 'ended [the] difference between him [Capt. Squeb] and the passengers', in token of which Captain Squeb gave the order for a salute of five guns in the govenor's honour and it was said that Squeb later paid compensation to [Roger] Ludlow." [Dorset Pilgrims, Frank Thistlethwaite, p.76]

There is no official passenger list of the Mary & John.
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HINGHAM, MASSACHUSETTS:

Land granted, 18 September, 1635, for five acres of land on North Street near Ship Street, Hingham, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts.

Freeman on 9 March 1636/37

TAUNTON, MASSACHUSETTS:

House lot on Dean Street west of John Dean house.

Freeman of Plymouth Colony 4 December 1638

First Constable, 1638 and 1639, juror 1645.

WINDSOR, CONNECTICUT:

4 February 1647 - "Thomas Thorton al his land formerly recorded in figures is sold to Thomas Ford and John Strong where the particulars fully apperarÖ."

This included a house, out house, yards, orchards and gardens containing about two acres, more or less, bounded north and west by the land of Walter Fyler, south by the rivulet, on the east by the highways, and adjoining at the foot of the hill, in the great meadow, one acre and three quarters more or less bounded north by the land of John Mason and east by the land of William Hill [Windsor Register of Deeds]

Freeman 15 May 1654 of Connecticut.

NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS:

John Strong was ordained and Elder of the church in 1663.

Lands -

14 October 1660 - John Strong bought from John Webb, a parcel of land lying in the Third square and bounded by land of Richard Lyman on the north and the highway on the south and on the sides bordering the land of David Wilton on the east by Samuel Allyn on the west - Seven acres .

John Strong bought another parcel from John Webb, a home lot bounded on the highway east and north and the mill trench on the west containing two acres. Part of this was given to his son Samuel.

John Strong bought another parcel from John Webb, which lies on the south side of Mill River and bounded by the highway east and west, the sides bordering the highway south and Mill River north containing - two acres.

15 October 1660 - Northampton granted to him several parcels of land including a tan yard which was bounded on the east and west by the highway, north by Ralph Hutchinson's land and the common land, and the meeting house hill on the south. John gave this to his son Ebenezer, on 15 December 1688.

The original tan yard contained one quarter acre. It was on King Street Brook a little north of Hampshire Marble Works. The town by vote directed all hides be taken to him to be tanned at his own price because of his reputation for honesty.

15 October 1660 - Northampton granted to him his home lot which was bounded on the highway north and Mill River on the south and bounded on the sides by the land of Capt. Aaron Cooke on the east and Alexander Edwards on the west. John Strong conveyed these parcels to John Webb 18 October 1660.

The home lot granted to him by Northampton on West Street was nearly opposite the Parson's Homestead. He sold it to John Webb, and purchased John Webb's home lot at the corner of Main and South Streets. The property remained in the family for 103 years.

Northampton granted John Strong another parcel of land in Manham Meadow which butts up on the Great River on the east and Mill River on the west containing four Six acres plus. John gave half of this lot to Ebenezer, 15 December 1688.

[Land records from "Strong Men and Strong Women" by Jeanne Waters Strong]
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John STRONG - b. about 1609, probably at Chard, Somerset, England; d. Apr. 14, 1699, Northampton, MA; bur. Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, MA. Son of John STRONG of Chard, Somerset, England. Probably embarked Plymouth, England Mar. 20, 1630 in 'Mary & John', and arrived at Nantasket, May 30, 1630. John apparently returned to England, married, and had two children, before sailing again for New England on May 8, 1635 from Weymouth aboard the 'Hopewell.' Settled first at Dorchester, MA, removed to Windsor, CT about 1636, to Taunton by 1638, and to Northampton in 1659 where he was the first Ruling Elder. He had 17 children and 145 grandchildren. Married first about 1632 in England, Margery DEANE (d. about 1635, Dorchester, MA), the mother of son John and a child who died in infancy, and daughter of William DEANE. Elder John STRONG married second about 1635, Dorchester, MA.

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Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England

STRONG, JOHN, Hingham 1635, removed to Taunton, and from thence to Northampton as early as 1659. [Lincoln, Hist. Hingham.] He had 17 children. His son Thomas had 15, son Jedidiah 12, son Samuel 12, and his grandson Jonathan 17. Sixty-one of the name, 17 of them clergymen, had grad. at the N. E. colleges in 1828. RETURN, Windsor 1640. 1 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. v. 168.

John married Abigail Ford in 1635 in Dorchester, Suffolk, MA. Abigail (daughter of Thomas Ford and Elizabeth Charde) was born about 8 Oct 1619 in Bridport, Dorset, England; died on 16 Jul 1688 in Northampton, Hampshire, MA; was buried in Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact 1: 8 Oct 1619, Baptized Bridport, Dorset, England; Fact 1
• Emigration: May 1630, On Mary And John

Notes:

WFT-Vol. 18, No. 1312 says d. Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts

William married Mary Winche in 1638 in Northampton, Hampshire, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt. Birth: Bumpstead, Steeple Par, England; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Death: 26 Aug 1671, Windsor, Hartford, CT; Alt. Death

Samuel married Ann Whitmore in 1632 in England. Ann (daughter of John Whitmore) was born in 1610 in England; died on 13 Nov 1687 in Braintree, Norfolk, MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alt. Birth: 1612, England; Alt. Birth
• Alt. Death: 6 Mar 1667, Northampton, Hampshire, MA; Alt. Death

Notes:

Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England

WOODFORD, THOMAS, freeman 1635, Northampton, 1658.

Thomas married Mary Blott on 4 Mar 1635 in Roxbury, Suffolk, MA. Mary (daughter of Robert Blott and Susannah Selbee) was born in Dec 1609 in Harrold, Belfordshire, England; died in 1656 in Hartford, Hartford, CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

WFT-Vol. 7, No. 3729
WFT-Vol. 15, No. 2493 has dob 1609 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut and dod 1656
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