Maj. Gen. John HUMPHREY

1597 - Bef 1652  (55 years)

• Name	John HUMPHREY  [1, 2, 3]
  	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. [1]
  Prefix	Maj. Gen.
  Birth	1596 or 1597	Chaldon Herring, co., Dorset   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Emigration	Jul 1634	Came with his wife to New England   [2]
  Fact	1640	Founder of Lynn   [2]
  Fact 1	1640	Member Artillery Co.   [2]
  Fact 2	1641	Held ranks to Gen.   [2]
  Emigration	26 Oct 1641	Returned to Sandwich, England   [2]
  Fact	Dep. Gov. of Massachusetts   [2]
  Fact 4	Will dated 16 Dec 1651 and proved 23Mmar 1651/2   [3]
  Death	Bef 20 Apr 1652	co. Dorset   [1, 2, 3]
  Person ID	I82070	Main Tree
  Last Modified	4 Nov 2020

  
  

  Family 1	Isabel WILLIAMS
  Family ID	F37526	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	26 Aug 2020

  
  

  Family 2	Elizabeth PELHAM,   b. 27 Apr 1604, Hellingly, co. Sussex d. 1 Nov 1628, Dorchester, co. Dorset (Age 24 years)
  Marriage	4 Sep 1621	Salisbury   [2, 3]
  Children	1. John HUMPHREY,   b. 1622, Fordington, co. Dorset d. Aft 4 Jun 1653 (Age 31 years)  [Birth]   2. Elizabeth HUMPHREY,   b. 1623, Fordington, co. Dorset  [Birth] + 3. Anne HUMPHREY,   b. 17 Dec 1625   d. 17 Dec 1693 (Age 68 years)  [Birth]
  Family ID	F29518	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	26 Aug 2020

  
  

  Family 3	Susan CLINTON
  Marriage	Abt 1630  [3]
  Family ID	F33394	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Apr 2018

  
  

• Event Map

  Emigration - Jul 1634 - Came with his wife to New England Fact - 1640 - Founder of Lynn Emigration - 26 Oct 1641 - Returned to Sandwich, England Fact - - Dep. Gov. of Massachusetts  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S11979] Marston Watson, Royal Families Americans of Royal and Noble Ancestry Vol. IV Pelham-Avery-West. [S5840] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonist Who Came to America before 1700. [S5008] David Faris, "Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists", (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.).