Genealogy of Patty Rose
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| Notes for John KETTLE | ||||||||||
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - JOHN, Charlestown, b. 6, bapt. 8 Dec. 1639, eldest s. of Richard of the same, was, perhaps, of Portsmouth 1663. He m. first, Sarah, d. of Edmund Goodenow, had John, Sarah, and Joseph. He had a sec. w. Mr. Wyman says, Elizabeth* d. of Samuel Ward the sec. wh. was carr. away from Lancaster in 1676, says Frothingham, 82; and by her had only Jonathan, b. at L. 24 Nov. 1670. [ref 20] *possible error, see notes below - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - John bapt. 8 (10) 1639 [ref 37:268] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - JOHN, b. Charlestown 6 December 1639 (ChVR 1:4); bp. Charlestown 8 December 1639 (ChChR 48); m. by about 1661 Sarah Goodenow. An entertaining controversy regarding John Kettle, son of Richard Kettle, and the matter of Indian captivity was carried on over a period of two years by Rev. George F. Clark and Abraham G.R. Hale (NEHGR 50:483-85, 51:294-97, 52:37-38). Aside from their intrinsic importance to the Kettle family, these three articles are very significant in the development of genealogical methodology, showing a clear triumph of an approach based on close analysis of original documents (represented here by Clark) over a mode of argumentation founded on credulous acceptance of later tradition (as seen in the article by Hale). COMMENTS: In all secondary accounts John Kettle, son of the immigrant, is given two wives: Sarah Goodenow, daughter of Edmund; and Elizabeth Ward, daughter of Samuel (Wyman 574-75; Savage 3:14-15; Brady Anc 202). These same sources also claim that it was this John Kettle whose family was captured by Indians at Lancaster during King Philip's War. John Kettle, son of Richard, married by about 1661 Sarah Goodenow, daughter of Edmund of Sudbury. They had daughter Sarah born in Sudbury on 8 March 1662(/3), but apparently also had son John born about 1661, who died at Charlestown 17 March 1690/1, aged about thirty (ChVR 1:153), and son Joseph, and these latter two were remembered in the will of Edmund Goodenow (Wyman 575). By 1665 John Kettle, son of Richard, had moved to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, for on 8 March 1665/6 he made a contribution to the minister's maintenance (NHGR 1:10), and he is seen regularly in Portsmouth from that date until 1680 (NHGR 1:11; NHPP 40:213, 250, 288, 303, 527, 531; Rambles 1:62). On 6 July 1680 "John Kettell of Portsmouth ... New Hampshire ... cooper" sold to Thomas Boylston of Muddy River and John Chinery of Watertown "all that my house plot ... in Charlestown abovesaid which I formerly purchased of Daniel Shepardson of Malden" (MLR 10:129 (see MLR 2:263 for purchase from Shepardson on 1 December 1662, when John Kettle was still of Charlestown)). Wyman tells us that he "(m)ade deed with wife Sarah, 1671 (per Exeter records)" (Wyman 575). A John Kettle with wife Elizabeth had children born in Gloucester from 1654 to 1665; he also appeared in Essex court records, always associated with Gloucester men, from 1655 to 1664 (EQC 1:390, 2:37, 38, 64, 124, 237, 3:203). No record of this John Kettle appears in Essex court again until 1679 (EQC 7:222), and he died at Salem on 12 October 1685. The economical conclusion is that it was John Kettle of Gloucester and his family who resided in Lancaster at the time of King Philip's War, and that it was his wife who was carried away by the Indians and who was at certain stages of her captivity in the company of the celebrated Mary Rowlandson (Lancaster Records 111, 114; Rowlandson's Narrative 54, 66). The confusion of the two John Kettles has a twofold origin: the proximity of Sudbury (the home of the wife of John Kettle of Charlestown) to Lancaster (the second residence of John Kettle of Gloucester); and the nearly simultaneous migration of each, when they crossed paths in about 1665 - the Charlestown man moving north to Portsmouth, and the Gloucester man moving west to Lancaster. In the methodological battle waged in the 1890s by Clark and Hale, the modern approach of Clark triumphed on the main point, showing that no John Kettle was killed by the Indians at Lancaster in King Philip's war, but Clark was wrong and Hale was right when it came to the identity of the Kettle family residing in Lancaster in the 1670s. The secondary sources, beginning with Wyman, which ascribe a second wife to John Kettle of Charlestown call her Elizabeth Ward, daughter of Samuel Ward of Marblehead (Wyman 994). This man died in the raid on Quebec in 1690, leaving behind several daughters, most of whom had married in the 1670s and 1680s; the various lists of heirs of this Samuel Ward do not include a daughter Elizabeth (Wyman 994). Whatever the resolution of this puzzle, we may be sure that neither of the John Kettles discussed above had a wife named Elizabeth Ward, daughter of this Samuel Ward. (The confusion regarding this alleged marriage may be an offshoot of the unsupported claim that Esther Ward, wife of Richard Kettle, was daughter of a Samuel Ward.) [ref 26] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | ||||||||||
| Notes for Sarah GOODENOW | ||||||||||
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Sarah, 17 Mar. 1643, m. John Kettle; daughter of Edmund GOODENOW and Anne BARRY [ref 20] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | ||||||||||
| Last Modified 5 Jun 2004 | Created 4 Jan 2005 |