Rev John WARHAM

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He came, it is said of a family of gentry of Dorset and Devon; Rev. G.C. Wilson in his article in the Memorial History of Hartford County, says he is thought to have come of an ancient family, the same stock as William Warham, Archbishop of Canterbury, who died in 1532. He was a graduate of St. Mary Hall, Oxford University, B.A., Nov. 14, 1614, M.A. May 18, 1618, and on May 23, 1619, was ordained at Silverton, co.Devon, by the Bishop of Exeter. Later, he preached in the City of Exeter and having embraced the Puritan doctrines, came to New England in the "Mary and John", in the spring of 1630, as one of the ministers of the party who founded Dorchester, Mass., where he served six years. His name is in the list of those desiring to be made Freemen, Oct., 1630. In 1636, he with the major part of the Dorchester congregation moved to Connecticut River and founded Windsor, where he served as pastor for thirty-four years until his death. He is classed by Trumbull, as one of the twelve civil and religious fathers of Connecticut. According to Cotton Mather,he was an energetic minister and a vigorous preacher and although "as pious a man as most that were out of Heaven, yet Satan often threw him into those deadly pangs of melancholy that made him despair of every getting thither." (Mather's Magnalia, I, pp. 441-2.) Several early New England ministers were similarly afflicted, doubtless from being steeped in the dismal theology of that period. There is an interesting note about him in Roger Clap's Memoirs. Living as a lad 3 miles from Exeter, he says: "I then took such a liking unto the Revd. Mr. John Warham that I did desire to live near him; So I removed (with my Father's consent) into the city," etc,. His first wife, whom he married in England, died at Dorchester, Mass., about Dec., 1634

Family/Spouse: ? UNKNOWN. ? died about 1634 in Dorchester, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Jane DABINOTT about 1637. Jane was born in England; died on 23 Apr 1655 in Norwalk, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Abigail WARHAM was christened on 27 May 1638; died before 14 Feb 1695/6.
2. Hepzibah WARHAM was christened on 9 Aug 1640; died in young.
3. Esther WARHAM was born in 1644; was christened on 8 Dec 1644; died on 10 Feb 1736.
4. Sarah WARHAM was born on 28 Aug 1652; died on 26 Dec 1678.

John married Abigail ? on 9 Oct 1662. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]