John Dane 1587-1658
Born: 1587 in Little Berkhampstead,
Died: September 14, 1658 in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
Spouse: Frances (Bowyer) Dane m. October 19,
1605 at
Children: John Dane
Elizabeth (Dane) Howe (More Below)
Mary
Dane, Christened May 1, 1617, died May
28, 1617
Rev.
Francis Dane (More
below)
2nd Spouse: Annis or Annie (Bayford)
Chandler, married July 2, 1643 in Roxbury, Massachusetts, born June 12, 1603 in
Farnham, Essex, England, died in Roxbury,
Massachusetts. She was the only child of
Francis Bayford Chandler and his wife, Johan. Francis Bayford
Chandler, born April 13, 1597, was the son of Henry and Anne (Bayford) Chandler. Henry, born about 1560, was the son of Thomas
and Joane Chandler.
She apparently first married her uncle, William Chandler, who died June
19, 1641. William and Annis had 4 children.
Secondly to John Dane. After John Dane’s death, Annis married a
third time to John Parminter or Parmenter.
Occupation: Tailor
Father’s name: William
Dane of Little Berkhampstead,
Herts, England, b. about 1561.
Mother’s name: Alicia
Pennefather
A transcription of John
Dane’s Will can be found in The
New England Historical & Genealogical Register,
Volume IX, published 1855.
The original having been handwritten and is the source for the autograph
above.
These
notes from Danielle
Landers website does a nice
job of summarizing: John Dane was a resident first of Berkhampstead,
Hertfordshire, England, where at least two of his children were born and later
at Bishop's Stortford in the same county. John and
his wife were very religious and strict disciplinarians as can be seen in the
biography written by their son John. The son John came to New England first,
but the parents soon followed. John Dane Sr is believed to have reached Ipswich
in 1636 with his wife Frances and probably their daughter Elizabeth Howe and
son Francis Dane. The earliest recorded evidence about this is of Ipswich land
granted to "Jiohn Deane the elder" which
was entered in the books on 90 April 1639;
"John Dean the elder" is also mentioned as an abuttor on 25 October 1639 and he and his sons John and
Francis all had rights in the comons in Februare,1641/2.
By 1640 John's wife Frances had died and he had moved to Roxbury where on 2
July 1643 he married Annis, widow of William
Chandler. Note: In October 1639 John
petitioned the General Court that the house and lands which had belonged to
William Chandler might be made over to him for he had paid more debts of Chanklrs than ye house and land was worth, & also
brought up ye children of Chandler wch have been
chargeable to him." Two days later, "In ansr
to the petition of John Dajne ffor
the setling the howse and
lands of Wm Chandler (whose wyddow he marryed & children brought vp) on him, the said John Dajne,
his request was graunted; & ye said howse and lands confirmed on him by the Courte." On 2
February 1651/2 John Dane made a deed of gift to his "dear and loving wife
Annis Dane..." of all the housing and lands that
had belonged to her first husband "reserving vse
of it in my owne hands vntill
my death...Provided that vpon the death of the sajd Annid or vpon
the dispossal of the sajd
housing & land shall stand bound for the payment of tenn
pounds..." which sum he made over to his son John Dane. Note: The will of john Dane "in his own
hand" writing was dated 7 September 1650. He gave to son John 10 pound
"pit pf ,u mpwdwe;;omj jpise. wjocj
wo;; a [[ear on a ded dated
2d beberi infifti one
[1651]...on feather bed & on feather boster &
two fether pillows & a yellow rugge,
& also a pewter platter." To his daughter Elizabeth How a black cow
"to be delieured to her after my deseas emediately...a litl kittle, & on pewter candlestick." To his son
Francis he gave his old black cow, his Bible and his woodland at Roxbury. "To louing wiff
Anic, whom I mak sooll exseetrix all my movable
goods that is no expressed."
His will was proved 16 October 1659.
John Dane is sometimes
referred to as “John Dane the Elder”, emigrated from
“[They] sailed for New
England on 1 June 1636, and arrived in November. For whereas the Voyage from Gravessend unto Boston, uses to be dispatched
in about Nine or Ten Weeks, the Ships which came with Mr. Rogers, where
fully Twenty four Weeks in the Voyage; and yet in this tedious Passage, not
one Person did miscarry. After they had come Two Thirds of their way, having
reached the length of Newfound-land, their Wants were so
multiplied, and their Winds were so contrary, that they entred into a serious Debate, about returning back
to England: But upon their setting apart a Day for solemn Fasting
and Prayer, the Weather cleared up; and in a little time they arrived at
their desired Port; namely, about the middle of November, in the year
1636.”
In a list of Commoners for
Ipswich at the end of 1641, John Dane’s name is followed by the abbrev. “Sen.” This most likely
means Senior.
There is a brief note that
John’s grandfather, William Dane’s father, was born about 1535 in the same
local, implying Little Berkhampstead,
John’s wife, Frances Bowyer, was born about 1590 in
Bishop’s Stortford, Hertsfordhsire,
England and died probably in 1642, probably in Ipswich, Essex,
Massachusetts. She is the daughter of
Thomas and Margaret Bowyer. Some report
her maiden name is Lone, but I have not found anything to support that. Her family is mentioned in the St. Michael’s
Parish Records of Bishop’s Stortford as early as
1558. John Bowyer, Senior is the
earliest reference moving on to Thomas, Henry, Robert, and a William. Presumably there was a John Junior. Peaking my interest for details and trivia
was the 1614 donation to the church by Robert Bowyer for 2 planks to lay over the Skull Hole.
Not knowing what a Skull Hole is, I went off on a tangent and tried to
find out. Best I could find is from The
Dublin Journal of Temperance, Sciance, and Literature,
Volume II, published in Dublin in 1843.
It explains, “Stump of an old round tower, which the country people call
the Skull Hole, from the circumstances of depositing in it all the skulls dug
up on the opening of old graves.”
Frances Bowyer had been at one time a servant to Lady Margaret Denny,
who was maid of honor to Queen Elizabeth and wife of Sir Edward Denny, a gentleman
of the queen's privy chamber. Lady Margaret died on April 24, 1648, aged 88,
and was buried in the church of Bishop's Stortford. [From Bill Marshall
Genealogy on Ancestry.com. He
cites as a reference: Ferris DAWES-GATES v1p239]
John Dane’s generosity is recorded. In the "Benefactions" recorded is
the following donation of land to the Church:
“John Dane, by deed dated 2ist of July, 1630, in consideration of
the parish having been at great charge in relieving Margaret his mother-in-law,
the wife of Thomas Bowyer, after the death of her husband, etc., conveyed a
parcel of ground taken out of a great yard belonging to John Dane, with a heremail there, or booth, and half part of a well lying in Hockerill Street, for the benefit of the chief inhabitants
of this parish for ever.”
From St. Michael’s
Parish Records of Bishop’s Stortford
However, in 1692, is this judgement from an
accounting of charities where the Church, acting as a landlord over this same
parcel of land, finds fault with one of the current residents:
“And that in or about ye twenty first day of July in the yeare of our Lord God 1630 Thomas Newcomen
and others, inhabitants of Stortford foreseid, were in the right and for the behalfe
and benefitt of ye poore of
the said towne seised of a parcell of ground taken out of a greate
yard belonging to John Dane with a Tenement thereon built, and halfe part of a Well lying in Hockerill
Streete as appeareth by the
said deed of purchase made betwixt the said John Dane of the one parte and the
said Thomas Newcomen and others of ye other parte,
and itt is found by ye said Inquisition that George
Barnes the present owner hath Stopt upp ye said Well to the damage of ye poore
inhabiting in ye said tenement.”
From St. Michael’s
Parish Records of Bishop’s Stortford
In 1642, a list of contributors to St. Michaels included essentially all
homeowners in the parish. No one with
the surname Dane is on the list. This
helps confirm that the Dane family has immigrated to the new world. Parish records in 1640 mention a street named
Dane-at-Coyves [Curves], later, in 1680, a mention is
made of “Dane Street, lately called Dell Street.”
The following comes from Steve
Condarcure’s New England Genealogy regarding daughter Elizabeth:
Dane, Elizabeth
b. 1611 Berkshamstead,
Hertfordshire, England
d. 21 JAN 1693
Family:
Marriage: 27 JUN 1628 Stratford, Bishop Parish, Herts, England
Spouse: Howe, James
b. 15 MAY 1598 St. Botolph, London, England (Other sources say she was Christened
in Little Berkhampstead, England on May 17, 1607.)
d. 17 MAY 1702 Ipswich,
Mass. (Other sources say the year was
1692.)
Children: Rebecca Howe
A number of sources report
that James Howe immigrated with his wife and children and Father-In-Law John
Dane to New England.
Also, according to Steve Condarcure’s New England Genealogy, combined with other
sources, we can summarize about son Francis:
Rev. Francis Dane, b. in
Lt. Francis Dane b. December 8, 1656 and d. November 8,
1738, m. Hannah Poor(e), dau
of Dan and Mary (Farnum) Poore.
Their son:
John Dane m. Sarah
Chandler. Their son:
William Dane m.
Mary Osgood. Their son:
William
Dane (Jr.) m. Susannah Burt.
Their son:
Joseph Burt Dane m. Rhoda Smith. Their children:
Joseph
Dane
Mary
F. Dane
Sarah
Jane Dane
Charles
F. Dane
John
O. Dane
James Osgood Dane m. Sarah Anna Sprecher.
Henry
H. Dane
Hannah Dane m. Capt. William Goodhue, jr.
of Ipswich, MA
Nath. Dane, b. abt. 1645 m. Deliverence Hazeltine, dau. of Robert and Ann of
Haverhill.
Elizabeth Dane, d. April15, 1722, m. Stephen Johnson,
November 15, 1661.
Phoebe Dane m. May 30, 1671 Joseph
Robinson, step-son of Edward Faulkner and son of his wife Dorothy Robinson.
Abigail
Dane, b. October 13, 1652 in Andover, MA; m. October 12, 1675 to Francis
Faulkner, son of Edward and Dorothy (Robinson) Faulkner.
There is more information at
Steve’s site. Please visit it.
There is also some of Rev.
Francis Dane’s writing regarding the Salem Witch Trials at: http://daynesfamilytree.netfirms.com/salemwitchtrials.htm.
Rev. Francis Dane was
ordained in 1648 in New England.
There is also very thorough,
good information regarding Rev. Francis Dane and his family at:
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jacquelinesr&id=I07116
Includes
listing of all children and detailed accounting of involvement in the Salem
Witch Trials.
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