Maj. Gen. John HUMPHREY

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Dep. Gov. of Massachusetts
• Fact 4: Will dated 16 Dec 1651 and proved 23Mmar 1651/2
• Emigration: Jul 1634, Came with his wife to New England
• Fact: 1640, Founder of Lynn
• Fact 1: 1640, Member Artillery Co.
• Fact 2: 1641, Held ranks to Gen.
• Emigration: 26 Oct 1641, Returned to Sandwich, England

Notes:

Name:
John was Treasurer of the Dorchester Company (led by Rev. John White of Dorchester, Dorset). John brought servants, John Legge and John King with him and was Deputy governor of Massachusetts. He returned to England on 26 Oct 1641 and died in 1652 at Chaldon Herring, Dorset. His bother-in-law were Edward Clarke, who married Ann Pelham, Thomas Pelham, Isaac Johnson who married Arabella Fiennes for whom Gov. Winthrop named his ship, and John Gorges (b. 1593), son of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, Lord of the Province of Maine, and Anne Bell, who married Frances Fiennes. John is listed in the uncalendared "Proceedings of the Court of Requests of Charles I" (12 Oct 1634) as agent of Dorchester (co. Dorset) of the "adventurers" (led by Rev. John White (1547/5-1648) from 1623-1628 who were involved with salt they had seized at Cape Anne. They were named again on 11 Mar 1636/7 as adventures at Cape Anne in sale, boats, etc. (NEHGR 61:278; 65:298). He immigrated in June 1634 to Boston.

Family/Spouse: Isabel WILLIAMS. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Elizabeth PELHAM on 4 Sep 1621 in Salisbury. Elizabeth (daughter of Herbert PELHAM, Esq. and Elizabeth WEST) was born on 27 Apr 1604 in Hellingly, co. Sussex; died on 1 Nov 1628 in Dorchester, co. Dorset. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. John HUMPHREY was born in 1622 in Fordington, co. Dorset; was christened on 11 Aug 1622; died after 4 Jun 1653.
2. Elizabeth HUMPHREY was born in 1623 in Fordington, co. Dorset; was christened on 23 Nov 1623.
3. Anne HUMPHREY was born on 17 Dec 1625; was christened on 17 Dec 1625 in Fordingham, Dorset; died on 17 Dec 1693.

John married Susan CLINTON about 1630. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]