Born: About 1644/5 in
Died: 1707
Spouse: Abigail
(Warner) Dane m. December 27, 1671 at
Children: Abigail (Dane) Crackbone (b. 1673) Married Joseph Crackbone March 27, 1705
Elizabeth Dane (b. 1678)
John Dane (b. 1681)
Benjamin Dane (b. abt 1683)
William Dane (b. 1685)
Susannah Dane (b. 1685)
Sarah Dane (b. 1687)
Rebecca Dane (b. 1687)
John Dane (b. 1687)
Elizabeth Dane (b. 1689)
Daniel
Dane (b.
1689) married 1st Lydia Day
and 2nd Mary Annable. Daniel and
(Note: More information can
be found regarding the children in George Stayley
Brown’s Yarmouth, Nova Scotia,
Genealogies, Genealogical Pub. Co., Baltimore, MD, 1993.)
Occupation: Yeoman (Most likely in the sense of being a
farmer on a smaller sized lot of land.)
Father’s name: Dr. John
Dane of Little Berkhampstead,
Mother’s name: Eleanor
(
Siblings: Mary Clark (Dane)
Philemon Dane
Elizabeth (Dane) Johnson (m. Stephen Johnson on November 5,
1661 in
Sarah (Dane) Heald
Rebecca (Dane) Hovey
John Dane, Jr. appears in List of Men With
Commonage Rights, 1678, extracted from Materials
for the History of Ipswich, New England Historical & Genealogical
Register, Vol 7, January 1853, pg 77. [Transcribed by Jane Devlin] “18
Feb 1678 - a List of ye Names of those psons yt have right of Comonage according to Law and order of this Town…”
John was a Juror in the
Salem Witch Trials. Afterwards, the
Jurors published this letter:
Declaration of Regret:
We whose names are underwritten, being in the year 1692 called to serve as
jurors in court at Salem, on trial of many who were by some suspected guilty of
doing acts of witchcraft upon the bodies of sundry persons, we confess that we
ourselves were not capable to understand, nor able to withstand, the mysterious
delusions of the powers of darkness and Prince of the air, but were, for want
of knowledge in ourselves and better information from others, prevailed with to
take with such evidence against the accused, as, on further consideration and
better information, we justly fear was insufficient for the touching the lives
of any (Deut. xvii) whereby we fear we have been instrumental, with others,
though ignorantly and unwittingly, to bring upon ourselves and this people of
the Lord the guilt of innocent blood; which sin the Lord saith
in Scripture he would not pardon (2 Kings xxiv.4) - that is, we suppose, in
regard to his temporal judgments. We do therefore hereby signify to all in
general, and to the surviving sufferers in special, our deep sense of, and sorrow
for, our errors in acting on such evidence to the condemning of any person; and
do hereby declare, that we justly fear that we were sadly deluded and mistaken
- for which we are much disquieted and distressed in our minds, and do
therefore humbly beg forgiveness, first of God, for Christ's sake, for this our
error, and pray that God would impute the guilt of it to ourselves nor others,
and we also pray that we may be considered candidly and aright by the living
sufferers, as being then under a strong and general delusion, utterly
unacquainted with, and not experienced in, matters of that nature.
We do hereby ask forgiveness of you all, whom we have justly offended, and do
declare, according to our present minds, we would none of us do such things
again, on such grounds, for the whole world - praying you to accept of this in
way of satisfaction for our offense, and that you would bless the inheritance
of the Lord, that he may be entreated for the land.
Thomas Fisk, Foreman
William Fisk
John Bacheler
Thomas Fisk
John
Dane
Joseph Evelith
Thomas Pearly, Sr.
John
Thomas Perkins
Samuel Sayer
Andrew Eliot
Henry Herrick, Sr.
The Rev. Francis Dane (Named
in the trials, but no arrest warrant issued) would be John Dane, Jr.’s Uncle and Abigail (Dane) Faulkner (Tried, found
guilty and pardoned due to being pregnant.) was Rev. Francis Dane’s daughter,
John Dane Jr.’s niece. I have some more information about Rev. Francis Dane here.
Abigail Warner was born in
1655 in Ipswich
“In 1705, the Hamlet was granted
by the town of Ipswich one acre of common land for a burial place. This was, the next year, exchanged with John
Dane for one-half acre which is a part of the present burial ground…John Dane,
the grantor, died in 1707, and was buried in this lot; the stone erected in his
memory bears the oldest date of any in the cemetery. The inscription is “Momento
Mori, Fugit Hora.
Here lyes ye body of John Dane, Sen., who
departed this life December 23d, 1707, in the 65th year of his age.” From History
of Essex County, Massachusetts, Volume 2, part
1, edited by Duane Hamilton Hurd, 1888. Information from an historic walking tour of
Ipswich comments that the oldest markers were made of wood and today none
exist.
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