Rev John WARHAM

Abt 1595 - 1670  (75 years)

• Name	John WARHAM  [1]
  	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 [1]
  Prefix	Rev
  Birth	Abt 1595	England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	1 Apr 1670  [1]
  Person ID	I83006	Main Tree
  Last Modified	8 Mar 2016

  
  

  Family 1	? UNKNOWN   d. Abt 1634, Dorchester, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F33912	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Mar 2016

  
  

  Family 2	Jane DABINOTT,   b. England d. 23 Apr 1655, Norwalk, Connecticut
  Marriage	Abt 1637  [1]
  Children	+ 1. Abigail WARHAM,   c. 27 May 1638   d. Bef 14 Feb 1695/6 (Age ~ 57 years)  [Birth]   2. Hepzibah WARHAM,   c. 9 Aug 1640   d. young  [Birth] + 3. Esther WARHAM,   b. 1644   d. 10 Feb 1736 (Age 92 years)  [Birth]   4. Sarah WARHAM,   b. 28 Aug 1652   d. 26 Dec 1678 (Age 26 years)  [Birth]
  Family ID	F33909	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Mar 2016

  
  

  Family 3	Abigail ?
  Marriage	9 Oct 1662  [1]
  Family ID	F33913	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Mar 2016

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - Abt 1595 - England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S3597] Ernest Flagg, "Genealogical Notes on the Founding of New England" My Ancestors Part in that Undertaking.