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1. "The Great Migration," by Robert Charles Anderson:
"John Finch
Origin: Unknown
Migration: 1632
First Residence: Watertown
Removes: Stamford 1642
Estate: Granted four acres in Beaverbrook Plowlands, 28 February 1636/7 [WaBOP 7]; granted four acres in Remote Meadows, 26 June 1637 [WaBOP 9]; granted a farm of ninety-one acres, 10 May 1642 [WaBOP 13]. (Presumably he had held a houselot and other small holdings prior to 1637. He does not appear in the early Watertown land inventories, and all lands known to be granted to him are at that time in the hands of John Wincoll, who purchased them from John Finch, presumably in mid-1642.)
Granted six acres by Stamford in October 1642 [TAG 10:42, 19:58].
An inventory of Stamford landholding was prepared on 1 March 1650, and John Finch's real estate is summarized there [Gillespie Anc 140, citing Stamford Town Records 1:43-44].
Birth: By about 1 595 based on estimated date of marriage.
Death: Stamford 5 September 1657 [TAG 10:44, 19:58].
Marriage:
(1) By about 1620 ___; not seen in any New England record.
(2) By about 1635 Martha (assuming she was the mother of his last four children), who married [blank] September 1658 John Green [TAG 10:113, 19:58].
Children:
With first wife:
i John, b. say 1620; m. (1) ___; m. (2) after 8 November 1652 Hannah (Marsh) Fuller, widow of Launcelot Fuller.
With second wife:
ii Isaac, b. say 1635; m. (1) Stamford [blank] October 1658 Elizabeth Basset [TAG 10:113]; m. (2) by 1682 Ann ___.
iii Samuel, b. say 1638; m. by about 1663 Sarah Hoyt, daughter of SIMON HOYT.
iv Joseph, b. about 1647 (deposed 6 May 1700 aged about fifty-three); m. Stamford 23 November [1670] Elizabeth Austin.
v Abraham, b. say 1648; m. about 1670 ___ ___.
Associations: See Daniel Finch for possible relations among Finch immigrants.
Comments: As noted under Daniel Finch, John has been credited as the man who lost his belongings in a fire in September 1630, but this is more likely Daniel. On 7 November 1632 "John Finch is fined 10s. for wanting arms for his man, & for being absent himself from training" [MBCR 1:102], and this is the earliest record we have for him in New England.
Savage has assigned to this John the death at the hands of the Pequots suffered by Abraham, son of Daniel.
The grants of Beaverbrook Plowlands and Remote Meadows in 1637 were for four acres each, which indicates that the maximum size of his family at that time was four heads. This would account for himself, wife, and two eldest sons John and Isaac, both of whom were born by this time.
Bibliographic Note: In addition to the sources cited under Daniel Finch, we take note here of the magnificent work by Paul Prindle on John Finch, which we follow here in many instances [Gillespie Anc 138-51]. In particular we have relied on Prindle for the data on the marriages of the sons of John Finch, and refer the reader to his work for fuller citations on these men."
2. The book "Ancestry of Elizabeth Barrett Gillespie (Mrs. William Sperry Beinecke)," by Paul W. Prindle, 1976, pp. 138-42:
"1. JOHN FINCH, born say, about 1590 in England, died 5 September 1657 at Stamford, New Haven Colony ("Stamford Town Records," 1:19-20). It appears that he was married twice, for his putative son John seems to have been about 15 years older than his next-born child. John Finch Sr. married second, Martha, maiden surname undetermined. As John's widow, Martha married second, on 7 (September?) 1658, John Green (ibid., 1:74) of New Haven, widower of Mary Jarvis ("The Washington Ancestry, and Records of the McClain, Johnson and Forty Other Colonial American Families," 3:539, by Charles A. Hoppin)...
John (1) Finch and his second wife, Martha, had at least four sons...
iv. Joseph Finch, born probably in 1647 for he, aged about 53, testified 6 May 1700 ("Greenwich Early Records": 125). He died before 3 January 1714, when the inventory of his estate was exhibited for probate ("Fairfield Probate Records," 5:296).
Joseph Finch married Elizabeth Austin, daughter of John and Catherine Austin ("The American Genealogist," 48:96), on 23 November "[1670]" ("Old Fairfield," op. cit., 1:201). The official transcript of the "Stamford Town Records" has the year as "16( )" (1:136) and erroneously shows (1:90) an Elizabeth, born 14 November 1669, to "Jos. Finch." The original record (1:76) has her as daughter of "lsac Finch" (Joseph's brother). Joseph and Elizabeth Finch lived in Greenwich, Connecticut Colony...
References:
As cited.
Stamford Town Records.
"History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield," by Donald Lines Jacobus, F.A.S.G."
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