Marke ST. JOHN

Other Events and Attributes:

• Birth: Abt 1636

Marke married Elizabeth STANLEY before Dec 1656. Elizabeth (daughter of Timothy STANLEY and Elizabeth ?) was born about 1635 in Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut; died before 1692. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Elizabeth ST. JOHN was born on 06 Dec 1656 in Norwalk, Fairfield County,Connecticut; died in 1732 in Kensington, Connecticut.
2. Sarah ST. JOHN was born on 18 Jan 1659/60 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died on 15 Apr 1714 in Ridgefield, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA.
3. Joseph ST. JOHN was born in Apr 1664 in Norwalk, Fairfield County,Connecticut; died on 26 Sep 1731 in Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut.
4. Rhoda ST. JOHN was born on 12 Aug 1666 in Norwalk, Fairfield County,Connecticut; died after 1702.
5. Lois ST. JOHN was born in 1669 in Norwalk, Fairfield County,Connecticut; died on 12 Jan 1752.
6. Rachel ST. JOHN was born in 1671 in Norwalk, Fairfield County,Connecticut.
7. Anna ST. JOHN was born on 18 Aug 1674 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA.

Marke married Dorothy SMITH between 21 Jan 1691 and 1692. Dorothy (daughter of Rev Henry SMITH and Dorothy ?) was born in 1636; died in 1706 in Farmington, Hartford Co., Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Will Proved: Between Jan 1669 and 1670
• Will: 19 Oct 1669
• Death: Abt Nov 1669, Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA

Notes:

Came to Dorchester, Mass., about 1632; freeman 3 Sept. 1634. Removed to Windsor about 1640, and in 1654 to Norwalk, where he died about Jan. 1669-70.

Excerpt from "The Whitney Family of Connecticut": Matthias St. John, came from Eng; freeman of Dorchester, 1634; removed to Windsor, about 1638; an early settler of Norwalk, soon after 1650; was named there in a lsit of freeman, 19 Oct. 1669; made his will the same day, and died before 31 Jan. 1669-70. when the inventory of his estate was taken. he mentioned his wife without giving her name; gave "unto my dearly beloved brother and sister ???, Twenty shillings apiece as a token of my love." A year later, 3 Jan. 1670-71, the townof Norwal voted that his son, "Matthias ??? is to take up his proportion of six acres to the hundre upon Elie's neck,next to his unkell Hoite." Probably this was Walter Hoyt.

Matthias married Mary TINKER on 01 Nov 1627 in New Windsor, Berkshire Co., England. Mary was born on 06 Aug 1606 in Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]