Joanna BOYSE

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• Fact: Daughter of Rev. John Boyse of Halifax, co. York, England

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Joanna Boyse, was the daughter of Rev John & Joanna (Stowe) Boyse. On July 2, 1637. She married, as his second wife, the Rev. Peter Prudden of Milford, while he was visiting Massachusetts. She married (2) Thomas Willett in Milford, 19 September 1671. (Savage says her gravestone of 1699 calls her his only wife and finds the error peculiar, but Burgess reads the stone to say 1669 and attributes it more correctly to the first wife.) There were no children of her marriage to Willett.
Source: Anderson's Great Migration Study Project

Find A Grave contributor Brooke Harlowe adds:
Joanna had a third husband, the Rev. John Bishop of Stamford, CT. She was his second wife. (See D.L. Jacobus, Families of Old Fairfield, vol. 1: 77)
Bishop is buried in St Johns and St. Andrews Episcopal Cemetery in Stamford. His memorial is 50504127.
In his will, Rev. Bishop asks to be buried between his two wives. I presume that Joanna (and Rebecca Goodyear Bishop) are in the same cemetery but no headstone remains for them.

Joanna married Rev Peter PRUDDEN on 2 Jul 1637. Peter was born in 1601 in Kingswalden, co. hertford, England; died in Jul 1656 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Joanna PRUDDEN was christened on 30 Aug 1640.
2. Mary PRUDDEN was born in 1641 in Milford, New Haven Co., Connecticut; died before 1681.
3. Elizabeth PRUDDEN was christened on 11 Mar 1642/3 in Milford, New Haven Co., Connecticut; died in 1685 in Not mentioned in Jehu's will.
4. Samuel PRUDDEN was born in 1643; died in 1685 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
5. Rev John PRUDDEN was born in 1645; died on 11 Dec 1725 in Newark, Essex, New Jersey, USA.
6. Abigail PRUDDEN was born in 1647; died in Jan 1717/8 in Stratfield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA.
7. Sarah PRUDDEN was born on 09 May 1650; died after 1700.
8. Peter PRUDDEN died on 10 Jun 1652.
9. Mildred PRUDDEN was born in 1653; was christened on 14 May 1653; died in Jan 1711/2 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

Joanna married Capt Thomas WILLETT on 19 Sep 1671 in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Thomas was born in Aug 1605 in Hertfordshire, England; died on 4 Aug 1674 in Swansea, Bristol County, Massachusetts; was buried in Ancient Little Neck Cemetery, East Providence, Providence Co.,Rhode Island. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Joanna married Rev John BISHOP in 1680. John was christened on 3 May 1610 in Cattistock, Dorset, England; died in Nov or Dec 1694/5 in Stamford, Fairfield Co., Connecticut; was buried in St. Johns & St. Andrew's Cemetery, Stamford, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]