Husband Jeffery FISKE
Born: Abt 1519 - Laxfield, Suffolk, England
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Buried: 1591 - Laxfield, Suffolk, England
Father: Richard FISKE (Abt 1493-1565)
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General Notes (Husband)
A "Cowper" (cooper). Marreid, left two daughters, mentioned in the Laxfield muster roll of 1543 & lay subsidies of 1542 & 1567/8
Husband Jeremy FISKE
Born: Abt 1523 - Laxfield or Westfall, Suffolk, England
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Father: Richard FISKE (Abt 1493-1565)
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Biven by Candler/ Henry Ffiske as a son of Richard of the Broadgates in Laxfield, no other information.
Husband John FISKE
Born: Abt 1580
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Buried: 14 May 1633 - St. James, South Elmham, Suffolk, England
Father: William FISKE (Abt 1550-1620)
Mother: Anna SYSTYE (AUSTYE) ( -1600)
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Wife Anne LAWTER
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1 M Rev. John FISKE
Born: 1601 - St. James Parish, south Elmham, suffolk, England
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Died: 14 Jan 1676-14 Jan 1677 - St. James Parish, south Elmham, suffolk, England
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Spouse: Anne GIPPES ( -1672)
Marr: 1629
Spouse: Elizabeth HINCHMAN ( - )
Marr: 1 Aug 1672 - Chelmsford, Massachusetts
2 M Eleazer FISKE
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Spouse: Elizabeth ( - )
3 F Anne FISKE
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Spouse: Francis CHICKERING ( - )
4 M Nathaniel FISKE
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Died: Infant
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5 F Martha FISKE
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6 M Hon. William FISKE
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7 F Martha FISKE
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Spouse: Captain Edmund THOMPSON ( - )
8 M William FISKE
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Died: Bef 16 Sep 1654 - Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts
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Spouse: Bridget MATCHET ( - )
General Notes (Husband)
Anne Lawter was John Fiske's second cousin; daughter of Robert and Mary (Fiske) Lawter and granddaughter of William Fiske.
General Notes (Wife)
Anne Lawter was his second cousin, daughter of Robert Lawter.
General Notes for Child Rev. John FISKE
ID: IND00493
Name: JOHN FISKE
Sex: M
Birth: 1601
Death: 14 JAN 1677
Note: BORN Cratfield , SUFFOLK, ENGLAND.DIED CHELMSFORD, MA.
Note:
IN AMERICAN BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL DICTIONARY- WILLIAM ALLEN 1809:-
"FIRST MINISTER OF WENHAM AND CHELMSFORD, MASS, WAS BORN IN ENGLAND 1601, AND WAS EDUCATED AT CAMBRIDGE. HE CAME TO THIS COUNTRY IN (1637?) , AND BEING IN THE SAME SHIP WITH THE REVEREND JOHN ALLEN, THEY PREACHED TWO SERMONS ALMOST EVERY DAY DURING THE VOYAGE.HE WAS FOR SOME TIME A TEACHER AT A SCHOOL IN CAMBRIDGE. AS HIS PROPERTY WAS LARGE, HE MADE CONSIDERABLE LOANS TO THE PROVENCE. HE LIVED ALMOST THREE YEARS AT SALEM, PREACHING TO THE CHURCH, AND INSTRUCTING A NUMBER OF YOUNG PERSONS.WHEN A CHURCH WAS GATHERED AT WENHAM, OCT. 8 1644, HE WAS SETTLED THE MINISTER, AND HERE HE CONTINUED TILL ABOUT THE YEAR 1656, WHEN HE REMOVED TO CHELMSFORD, THEN A NEW TOWN, WITH THE MAJORITY OF HIS CHURCH." "ONE OF HIS SONS WAS MINISTER AT BRAINTREE." "HE PUBLISHED A CATECHISM, ENTITLED "THE OLIVE BRANCH WATERED"."
Marriage 1 ELIZABETH ALDOUS b: 1615
Married: 17 JUL 1639
Note: July .., 1639. -- John FISKE of Cratfield and Elizabeth ALDUS of Holton, late of Mendham, single, at Holton
Fiske Genealogy -
The earliest of the Wenham town records extant is a grant of twenty acres of land to the town, one-half of it by Mr. Smith, on one side of the meeting house, and the other half, by Mr. John Fisk, on the other side ofit. This grant, which was made march 2, 1642, appears to have been divided into two-acre lots, where given to actual settlers on the condition of building upon them dwellings for themselves and their families. But in case that any such should wish to remove from the village they were required to offer their places for sale frist to "the Plantation:. The object of this arrangement was to encourage actual settlers, adn also to form a village about the middle of the town. From these votes it appears that a meeting house, or atleast a temporary one, had already been built...
There cannot eb a doubt that John is the "Mr. John Fiske" who was made a fereman at a court held in march, 1637-8 (Savage's Winthrop, Vol. 2, p 367). His wife was Ann Gipps, of Frinshall, in Norfolk. They had a child, who was born at Frinshall, but died in infancy. A son, Nathaniel, died as an infant. Trhee other children, John, Sarah and Moses, were born in New England, and here Candler's account in his manuscript in the British Museum of this branch of the family ends.
Rev. John Fiske (by Cotton Mather). Among the writers of the Gospel with which the primitive church was blessed was "Luke, teh beloved Physician", of whom Jerom elegantly says that etc. etc. ... a brother whose praise was the gospel througout all the churches. This was Mr. John Fiske. Mr. Fiske was born in the Parish of St. James, in the County of Suffolk, England, about the year 1601, of pious parents. His grandparenst and great-grandparents were eminently zeqlous in the true religion. In the reign of Queen Mary, of six brotehrs of this name, trhee were Papists, adn three were Protestants. Two of the latter were grievously persecuted. The one from whom John, the subject of this memoir, descended, was, to avoid burning, hid many months in a wood pile and afterward ahalf a year in a cellar, where he wrought by candle light at manufactures and remained undiscovered. But his many hardships brought on excessive bleeding, which shortened his days and added to "the cry of the souls under the altar." John was the eldest of four children, who all came with him to New England and left posterity with whom God established His Holy Covenant. His parents having devoted him to the Lord Jesus Christ, sent him first to a grammar school at a distance of two miles from their abode. Being there fitted for the university, he was sent ti Immanuel College, Cambridge, where he resided until he took his first degree. Having spent some considerable time in prparatory studies he entered upon the work to which he had been devoted and which was his favorite object, the peraching of the Gospel. In this pursuit he woudl have continued had not Satan hindered him. The confirmity act was odious to him. Its friends and supporters "breathed out slanders and the silencers pressed so hard upon him for his non-conformity, that upon the advice of his friends he relinquished the ministry and turned his attention to the study of physics. .... he resolved on going to New England, where he saw an opportunity for teh quiet exercise of his ministry. He went on board a ship in disguise to avoid the fury of his persecutors. After they had passed the land's end, he entertained the passengers with two sermons a day, besides other agreeable discourses and devotional exercises, which filled teh voyage with so much religion that one of the passengers being examined abuot his trying to divert himself with a hook and line on the Lord's day, protested that he did not know when the Lord's day was; he thought every day was a Sabbath day, for they did nothing but pray and preach all the wekk long.... He came well stocked with servants and all sorts of tools for husbandry and carpentry, and with provisions to support his family in a widerness three years: out of which he charitably let a considerable quantity to the country, which he then found in the distresses of a war with the Pequot Indians
The most prominet name among the first settlers of the town of Wenham was that of Fisk. Rev. John Fisk, who came from the County of Suffolk, in England, was the first minister of teh place. As the parish of Wenham, in England, lies in the same county, it is not unlikely that the name of the town was taken from teh original residence of this family. Rev. Mr. Fisk, after a residence of twelve years in Wenham, removed to Chelmsford, where he died.
The next year, Mr. John Fisk, who had taught the first grammar school established in Salem, and while thus engaged had occasionally assisted Mr. Peters in his ministerial labors, removed to Wenham, and through his efforts a church was regularly organized on the 8th of October, 1644. He at once became its pastor, and continued his labors in the town till 1656, apparently much to the satisfaction of the people. To the duties of the pastor he added those of physician.
This appears like high eulogy, but for the times in which he lived, Mr. Fisk was evidently a superior man. He was descended from pious ancestry, and was early devoted to teh service of Christ and the church. His parents, after carefully instructing him at home, sent him to the grammar school and afterwards to the university. He graduaetd at Immanuel Collge, Cambridge, and after studying theology was engaged for several years in the work of the ministry. In consequence, however, of the persecution then carried on against the Puritans and the difficulties and annoyances in the way of preaching, in accordance withthe advice of his friends, he turned his attention to medicine, and obtained the usual license to practice as a physician. Yet he was still so desirous to aresume the labors of teh ministry that he determined to remove to America. He had previousy married a lady of high rank and uncommon worth. To her parents his purpose to come to America was so disagreeable that they resolved to deprive him of several hunderd pounds, which were the just share of his wife in her father's estate...
After arriving in this cuontry, Mr. Fisk appers to have taught some years in Cambridge, and afterwards in Salem. Of his services in the latter city, the honest fame of the first teacher of our grammar school. He was, by the concurrent testimony of the most learned and honored of his day and generatino, ranked high in the list of able, useful and devoted ministers of the gospel. ... His pupils, it is said, were fitted "to read any classical authors into English, and readily make and speak true Latin, and write it in verse as well as prose, and perfectly to decline the apradigms of nouns and verbs in the Gerek tongue."
Preferring however the work of the iminstry to the labors of the teacher, he gave up his school in 1643, and removing to Wenham, joined his fortunes to those of the infant plantation. ... He remained .. till 1656, when, with a majority of the church, he removed to Chelmsford, where he lived for twenty years,: says Cotton Mather....
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Social Cohesion in Early New England. NEHGR, 1992.
The leaders of the group who founded Dedham, Massachusetts, were a tightly-woven extended family of yeoman status, from the neighborhood of the dairying and weaving village of Fressingfield in the wood-pasture region of High Suffolk. The Aldous household was linked to the Brocks by Elizabeth Aldous's marriage to Henry Brock, who in turn was probalby related to John Brock, later minister of Reading, Massachsuetts. One of the emigrant Chickering brothers, Francis, who became Dedham's military ensign, was married to the sister of John Fiske, founder of Wenham and Chemsford, Massachusetts. Fiske's wife was sister of Meribah (Gibbs) Folger, ancestress of Benjamin Franklin, who left Diss, just over teh Norfolk border, in 1635 with her husband John and one child. The Fisher brothers, Anthony and Joshua, were likewise connected to teh Fiske clan through their mother Mary (Fiske) Fisher. In Dedham, Joshua Fisher, Jr., a blacksomith, married Mary, the daugther of Deacon nathaniel Aldous. Aldous, Fisher, Fiske and Brock families, along with felllow emigrant families Barber adn Lusher, are known from probate evidence to have been settled in the Fressingfield area of Suffolk for generations. Tehse people quickly became leaders of the community in Dedham, surviving on average for thirty-four years there and providing a sense of cohesion and continuity from their homes in the old world to the new.
General Notes for Child Anne FISKE
jAncestors of Mrs. William Henry Harrison and grandson Pres. Benjamin Harrison)
General Notes for Child Hon. William FISKE
Hon. William Fiske of Wynham.
General Notes for Child William FISKE
of Salem and Wenham, Massachusetts, under 24 in September 1638 . Died probably at Wenham abt 1654, inventory of his estate being taken 16 Sept 1654.
Went to Massachsuetts ni 1637, settled at Salem. He was admitted freeman 18 May 1642, was a constable 26 Feb 1643/4, and was licensed by the General Court to sell wine 13 Nov 1644. He was a deputy to the General court and moved to Wenham. Children Wiliam, Samuel, Joseph, Benjamin, Martha.
Husband Rev. John FISKE
Born: 1601 - St. James Parish, south Elmham, suffolk, England
Christened:
Died: 14 Jan 1676-14 Jan 1677 - St. James Parish, south Elmham, suffolk, England
Buried:
Father: John FISKE (Abt 1580-1633)
Mother: Anne LAWTER ( - )
Marriage: 1629
Other Spouse: Elizabeth HINCHMAN ( - ) - 1 Aug 1672 - Chelmsford, Massachusetts
Wife Anne GIPPES
Born: - of Frinshall, Norfolk, England
Christened:
Died: 14 Feb 1672 - Chelmsford, Massachusetts
Buried:
Children
General Notes (Husband)
ID: IND00493
Name: JOHN FISKE
Sex: M
Birth: 1601
Death: 14 JAN 1677
Note: BORN Cratfield , SUFFOLK, ENGLAND.DIED CHELMSFORD, MA.
Note:
IN AMERICAN BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL DICTIONARY- WILLIAM ALLEN 1809:-
"FIRST MINISTER OF WENHAM AND CHELMSFORD, MASS, WAS BORN IN ENGLAND 1601, AND WAS EDUCATED AT CAMBRIDGE. HE CAME TO THIS COUNTRY IN (1637?) , AND BEING IN THE SAME SHIP WITH THE REVEREND JOHN ALLEN, THEY PREACHED TWO SERMONS ALMOST EVERY DAY DURING THE VOYAGE.HE WAS FOR SOME TIME A TEACHER AT A SCHOOL IN CAMBRIDGE. AS HIS PROPERTY WAS LARGE, HE MADE CONSIDERABLE LOANS TO THE PROVENCE. HE LIVED ALMOST THREE YEARS AT SALEM, PREACHING TO THE CHURCH, AND INSTRUCTING A NUMBER OF YOUNG PERSONS.WHEN A CHURCH WAS GATHERED AT WENHAM, OCT. 8 1644, HE WAS SETTLED THE MINISTER, AND HERE HE CONTINUED TILL ABOUT THE YEAR 1656, WHEN HE REMOVED TO CHELMSFORD, THEN A NEW TOWN, WITH THE MAJORITY OF HIS CHURCH." "ONE OF HIS SONS WAS MINISTER AT BRAINTREE." "HE PUBLISHED A CATECHISM, ENTITLED "THE OLIVE BRANCH WATERED"."
Marriage 1 ELIZABETH ALDOUS b: 1615
Married: 17 JUL 1639
Note: July .., 1639. -- John FISKE of Cratfield and Elizabeth ALDUS of Holton, late of Mendham, single, at Holton
Fiske Genealogy -
The earliest of the Wenham town records extant is a grant of twenty acres of land to the town, one-half of it by Mr. Smith, on one side of the meeting house, and the other half, by Mr. John Fisk, on the other side ofit. This grant, which was made march 2, 1642, appears to have been divided into two-acre lots, where given to actual settlers on the condition of building upon them dwellings for themselves and their families. But in case that any such should wish to remove from the village they were required to offer their places for sale frist to "the Plantation:. The object of this arrangement was to encourage actual settlers, adn also to form a village about the middle of the town. From these votes it appears that a meeting house, or atleast a temporary one, had already been built...
There cannot eb a doubt that John is the "Mr. John Fiske" who was made a fereman at a court held in march, 1637-8 (Savage's Winthrop, Vol. 2, p 367). His wife was Ann Gipps, of Frinshall, in Norfolk. They had a child, who was born at Frinshall, but died in infancy. A son, Nathaniel, died as an infant. Trhee other children, John, Sarah and Moses, were born in New England, and here Candler's account in his manuscript in the British Museum of this branch of the family ends.
Rev. John Fiske (by Cotton Mather). Among the writers of the Gospel with which the primitive church was blessed was "Luke, teh beloved Physician", of whom Jerom elegantly says that etc. etc. ... a brother whose praise was the gospel througout all the churches. This was Mr. John Fiske. Mr. Fiske was born in the Parish of St. James, in the County of Suffolk, England, about the year 1601, of pious parents. His grandparenst and great-grandparents were eminently zeqlous in the true religion. In the reign of Queen Mary, of six brotehrs of this name, trhee were Papists, adn three were Protestants. Two of the latter were grievously persecuted. The one from whom John, the subject of this memoir, descended, was, to avoid burning, hid many months in a wood pile and afterward ahalf a year in a cellar, where he wrought by candle light at manufactures and remained undiscovered. But his many hardships brought on excessive bleeding, which shortened his days and added to "the cry of the souls under the altar." John was the eldest of four children, who all came with him to New England and left posterity with whom God established His Holy Covenant. His parents having devoted him to the Lord Jesus Christ, sent him first to a grammar school at a distance of two miles from their abode. Being there fitted for the university, he was sent ti Immanuel College, Cambridge, where he resided until he took his first degree. Having spent some considerable time in prparatory studies he entered upon the work to which he had been devoted and which was his favorite object, the peraching of the Gospel. In this pursuit he woudl have continued had not Satan hindered him. The confirmity act was odious to him. Its friends and supporters "breathed out slanders and the silencers pressed so hard upon him for his non-conformity, that upon the advice of his friends he relinquished the ministry and turned his attention to the study of physics. .... he resolved on going to New England, where he saw an opportunity for teh quiet exercise of his ministry. He went on board a ship in disguise to avoid the fury of his persecutors. After they had passed the land's end, he entertained the passengers with two sermons a day, besides other agreeable discourses and devotional exercises, which filled teh voyage with so much religion that one of the passengers being examined abuot his trying to divert himself with a hook and line on the Lord's day, protested that he did not know when the Lord's day was; he thought every day was a Sabbath day, for they did nothing but pray and preach all the wekk long.... He came well stocked with servants and all sorts of tools for husbandry and carpentry, and with provisions to support his family in a widerness three years: out of which he charitably let a considerable quantity to the country, which he then found in the distresses of a war with the Pequot Indians
The most prominet name among the first settlers of the town of Wenham was that of Fisk. Rev. John Fisk, who came from the County of Suffolk, in England, was the first minister of teh place. As the parish of Wenham, in England, lies in the same county, it is not unlikely that the name of the town was taken from teh original residence of this family. Rev. Mr. Fisk, after a residence of twelve years in Wenham, removed to Chelmsford, where he died.
The next year, Mr. John Fisk, who had taught the first grammar school established in Salem, and while thus engaged had occasionally assisted Mr. Peters in his ministerial labors, removed to Wenham, and through his efforts a church was regularly organized on the 8th of October, 1644. He at once became its pastor, and continued his labors in the town till 1656, apparently much to the satisfaction of the people. To the duties of the pastor he added those of physician.
This appears like high eulogy, but for the times in which he lived, Mr. Fisk was evidently a superior man. He was descended from pious ancestry, and was early devoted to teh service of Christ and the church. His parents, after carefully instructing him at home, sent him to the grammar school and afterwards to the university. He graduaetd at Immanuel Collge, Cambridge, and after studying theology was engaged for several years in the work of the ministry. In consequence, however, of the persecution then carried on against the Puritans and the difficulties and annoyances in the way of preaching, in accordance withthe advice of his friends, he turned his attention to medicine, and obtained the usual license to practice as a physician. Yet he was still so desirous to aresume the labors of teh ministry that he determined to remove to America. He had previousy married a lady of high rank and uncommon worth. To her parents his purpose to come to America was so disagreeable that they resolved to deprive him of several hunderd pounds, which were the just share of his wife in her father's estate...
After arriving in this cuontry, Mr. Fisk appers to have taught some years in Cambridge, and afterwards in Salem. Of his services in the latter city, the honest fame of the first teacher of our grammar school. He was, by the concurrent testimony of the most learned and honored of his day and generatino, ranked high in the list of able, useful and devoted ministers of the gospel. ... His pupils, it is said, were fitted "to read any classical authors into English, and readily make and speak true Latin, and write it in verse as well as prose, and perfectly to decline the apradigms of nouns and verbs in the Gerek tongue."
Preferring however the work of the iminstry to the labors of the teacher, he gave up his school in 1643, and removing to Wenham, joined his fortunes to those of the infant plantation. ... He remained .. till 1656, when, with a majority of the church, he removed to Chelmsford, where he lived for twenty years,: says Cotton Mather....
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Social Cohesion in Early New England. NEHGR, 1992.
The leaders of the group who founded Dedham, Massachusetts, were a tightly-woven extended family of yeoman status, from the neighborhood of the dairying and weaving village of Fressingfield in the wood-pasture region of High Suffolk. The Aldous household was linked to the Brocks by Elizabeth Aldous's marriage to Henry Brock, who in turn was probalby related to John Brock, later minister of Reading, Massachsuetts. One of the emigrant Chickering brothers, Francis, who became Dedham's military ensign, was married to the sister of John Fiske, founder of Wenham and Chemsford, Massachusetts. Fiske's wife was sister of Meribah (Gibbs) Folger, ancestress of Benjamin Franklin, who left Diss, just over teh Norfolk border, in 1635 with her husband John and one child. The Fisher brothers, Anthony and Joshua, were likewise connected to teh Fiske clan through their mother Mary (Fiske) Fisher. In Dedham, Joshua Fisher, Jr., a blacksomith, married Mary, the daugther of Deacon nathaniel Aldous. Aldous, Fisher, Fiske and Brock families, along with felllow emigrant families Barber adn Lusher, are known from probate evidence to have been settled in the Fressingfield area of Suffolk for generations. Tehse people quickly became leaders of the community in Dedham, surviving on average for thirty-four years there and providing a sense of cohesion and continuity from their homes in the old world to the new.
Husband Rev. John FISKE
Born: 1601 - St. James Parish, south Elmham, suffolk, England
Christened:
Died: 14 Jan 1676-14 Jan 1677 - St. James Parish, south Elmham, suffolk, England
Buried:
Father: John FISKE (Abt 1580-1633)
Mother: Anne LAWTER ( - )
Marriage: 1 Aug 1672 - Chelmsford, Massachusetts
Other Spouse: Anne GIPPES ( -1672) - 1629
Wife Elizabeth HINCHMAN
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Children
General Notes (Husband)
ID: IND00493
Name: JOHN FISKE
Sex: M
Birth: 1601
Death: 14 JAN 1677
Note: BORN Cratfield , SUFFOLK, ENGLAND.DIED CHELMSFORD, MA.
Note:
IN AMERICAN BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL DICTIONARY- WILLIAM ALLEN 1809:-
"FIRST MINISTER OF WENHAM AND CHELMSFORD, MASS, WAS BORN IN ENGLAND 1601, AND WAS EDUCATED AT CAMBRIDGE. HE CAME TO THIS COUNTRY IN (1637?) , AND BEING IN THE SAME SHIP WITH THE REVEREND JOHN ALLEN, THEY PREACHED TWO SERMONS ALMOST EVERY DAY DURING THE VOYAGE.HE WAS FOR SOME TIME A TEACHER AT A SCHOOL IN CAMBRIDGE. AS HIS PROPERTY WAS LARGE, HE MADE CONSIDERABLE LOANS TO THE PROVENCE. HE LIVED ALMOST THREE YEARS AT SALEM, PREACHING TO THE CHURCH, AND INSTRUCTING A NUMBER OF YOUNG PERSONS.WHEN A CHURCH WAS GATHERED AT WENHAM, OCT. 8 1644, HE WAS SETTLED THE MINISTER, AND HERE HE CONTINUED TILL ABOUT THE YEAR 1656, WHEN HE REMOVED TO CHELMSFORD, THEN A NEW TOWN, WITH THE MAJORITY OF HIS CHURCH." "ONE OF HIS SONS WAS MINISTER AT BRAINTREE." "HE PUBLISHED A CATECHISM, ENTITLED "THE OLIVE BRANCH WATERED"."
Marriage 1 ELIZABETH ALDOUS b: 1615
Married: 17 JUL 1639
Note: July .., 1639. -- John FISKE of Cratfield and Elizabeth ALDUS of Holton, late of Mendham, single, at Holton
Fiske Genealogy -
The earliest of the Wenham town records extant is a grant of twenty acres of land to the town, one-half of it by Mr. Smith, on one side of the meeting house, and the other half, by Mr. John Fisk, on the other side ofit. This grant, which was made march 2, 1642, appears to have been divided into two-acre lots, where given to actual settlers on the condition of building upon them dwellings for themselves and their families. But in case that any such should wish to remove from the village they were required to offer their places for sale frist to "the Plantation:. The object of this arrangement was to encourage actual settlers, adn also to form a village about the middle of the town. From these votes it appears that a meeting house, or atleast a temporary one, had already been built...
There cannot eb a doubt that John is the "Mr. John Fiske" who was made a fereman at a court held in march, 1637-8 (Savage's Winthrop, Vol. 2, p 367). His wife was Ann Gipps, of Frinshall, in Norfolk. They had a child, who was born at Frinshall, but died in infancy. A son, Nathaniel, died as an infant. Trhee other children, John, Sarah and Moses, were born in New England, and here Candler's account in his manuscript in the British Museum of this branch of the family ends.
Rev. John Fiske (by Cotton Mather). Among the writers of the Gospel with which the primitive church was blessed was "Luke, teh beloved Physician", of whom Jerom elegantly says that etc. etc. ... a brother whose praise was the gospel througout all the churches. This was Mr. John Fiske. Mr. Fiske was born in the Parish of St. James, in the County of Suffolk, England, about the year 1601, of pious parents. His grandparenst and great-grandparents were eminently zeqlous in the true religion. In the reign of Queen Mary, of six brotehrs of this name, trhee were Papists, adn three were Protestants. Two of the latter were grievously persecuted. The one from whom John, the subject of this memoir, descended, was, to avoid burning, hid many months in a wood pile and afterward ahalf a year in a cellar, where he wrought by candle light at manufactures and remained undiscovered. But his many hardships brought on excessive bleeding, which shortened his days and added to "the cry of the souls under the altar." John was the eldest of four children, who all came with him to New England and left posterity with whom God established His Holy Covenant. His parents having devoted him to the Lord Jesus Christ, sent him first to a grammar school at a distance of two miles from their abode. Being there fitted for the university, he was sent ti Immanuel College, Cambridge, where he resided until he took his first degree. Having spent some considerable time in prparatory studies he entered upon the work to which he had been devoted and which was his favorite object, the peraching of the Gospel. In this pursuit he woudl have continued had not Satan hindered him. The confirmity act was odious to him. Its friends and supporters "breathed out slanders and the silencers pressed so hard upon him for his non-conformity, that upon the advice of his friends he relinquished the ministry and turned his attention to the study of physics. .... he resolved on going to New England, where he saw an opportunity for teh quiet exercise of his ministry. He went on board a ship in disguise to avoid the fury of his persecutors. After they had passed the land's end, he entertained the passengers with two sermons a day, besides other agreeable discourses and devotional exercises, which filled teh voyage with so much religion that one of the passengers being examined abuot his trying to divert himself with a hook and line on the Lord's day, protested that he did not know when the Lord's day was; he thought every day was a Sabbath day, for they did nothing but pray and preach all the wekk long.... He came well stocked with servants and all sorts of tools for husbandry and carpentry, and with provisions to support his family in a widerness three years: out of which he charitably let a considerable quantity to the country, which he then found in the distresses of a war with the Pequot Indians
The most prominet name among the first settlers of the town of Wenham was that of Fisk. Rev. John Fisk, who came from the County of Suffolk, in England, was the first minister of teh place. As the parish of Wenham, in England, lies in the same county, it is not unlikely that the name of the town was taken from teh original residence of this family. Rev. Mr. Fisk, after a residence of twelve years in Wenham, removed to Chelmsford, where he died.
The next year, Mr. John Fisk, who had taught the first grammar school established in Salem, and while thus engaged had occasionally assisted Mr. Peters in his ministerial labors, removed to Wenham, and through his efforts a church was regularly organized on the 8th of October, 1644. He at once became its pastor, and continued his labors in the town till 1656, apparently much to the satisfaction of the people. To the duties of the pastor he added those of physician.
This appears like high eulogy, but for the times in which he lived, Mr. Fisk was evidently a superior man. He was descended from pious ancestry, and was early devoted to teh service of Christ and the church. His parents, after carefully instructing him at home, sent him to the grammar school and afterwards to the university. He graduaetd at Immanuel Collge, Cambridge, and after studying theology was engaged for several years in the work of the ministry. In consequence, however, of the persecution then carried on against the Puritans and the difficulties and annoyances in the way of preaching, in accordance withthe advice of his friends, he turned his attention to medicine, and obtained the usual license to practice as a physician. Yet he was still so desirous to aresume the labors of teh ministry that he determined to remove to America. He had previousy married a lady of high rank and uncommon worth. To her parents his purpose to come to America was so disagreeable that they resolved to deprive him of several hunderd pounds, which were the just share of his wife in her father's estate...
After arriving in this cuontry, Mr. Fisk appers to have taught some years in Cambridge, and afterwards in Salem. Of his services in the latter city, the honest fame of the first teacher of our grammar school. He was, by the concurrent testimony of the most learned and honored of his day and generatino, ranked high in the list of able, useful and devoted ministers of the gospel. ... His pupils, it is said, were fitted "to read any classical authors into English, and readily make and speak true Latin, and write it in verse as well as prose, and perfectly to decline the apradigms of nouns and verbs in the Gerek tongue."
Preferring however the work of the iminstry to the labors of the teacher, he gave up his school in 1643, and removing to Wenham, joined his fortunes to those of the infant plantation. ... He remained .. till 1656, when, with a majority of the church, he removed to Chelmsford, where he lived for twenty years,: says Cotton Mather....
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Social Cohesion in Early New England. NEHGR, 1992.
The leaders of the group who founded Dedham, Massachusetts, were a tightly-woven extended family of yeoman status, from the neighborhood of the dairying and weaving village of Fressingfield in the wood-pasture region of High Suffolk. The Aldous household was linked to the Brocks by Elizabeth Aldous's marriage to Henry Brock, who in turn was probalby related to John Brock, later minister of Reading, Massachsuetts. One of the emigrant Chickering brothers, Francis, who became Dedham's military ensign, was married to the sister of John Fiske, founder of Wenham and Chemsford, Massachusetts. Fiske's wife was sister of Meribah (Gibbs) Folger, ancestress of Benjamin Franklin, who left Diss, just over teh Norfolk border, in 1635 with her husband John and one child. The Fisher brothers, Anthony and Joshua, were likewise connected to teh Fiske clan through their mother Mary (Fiske) Fisher. In Dedham, Joshua Fisher, Jr., a blacksomith, married Mary, the daugther of Deacon nathaniel Aldous. Aldous, Fisher, Fiske and Brock families, along with felllow emigrant families Barber adn Lusher, are known from probate evidence to have been settled in the Fressingfield area of Suffolk for generations. Tehse people quickly became leaders of the community in Dedham, surviving on average for thirty-four years there and providing a sense of cohesion and continuity from their homes in the old world to the new.
Husband Benjamin HARRINGTON
Born: 2 Oct 1685
Christened:
Died: 1768
Buried:
Father: Benjamin HARRINGTON (1661- )
Mother: Abigail BIGELOW (1663- )
Marriage:
Other Spouse: Grace ALLEN (1696-1730)
Wife Lydia FISKE
Born: 2 Dec 1687
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Children
Husband Captain Edmund THOMPSON
Born:
Christened:
Died:
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Marriage:
Wife Martha FISKE
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Father: John FISKE (Abt 1580-1633)
Mother: Anne LAWTER ( - )
Children
Husband Robert GOLDING
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Marriage: 2 Nov 1609 - Syleham, Suffolk, England
Wife Martha FISKE
Born: Abt 1561
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Nicholas FISKE (Abt 1517-1569)
Mother: Joan CRISPE (Abt 1527- )
Children
Husband
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Wife Martha FISKE
Born:
Christened:
Died: Infant
Buried:
Father: John FISKE (Abt 1580-1633)
Mother: Anne LAWTER ( - )
Children
Husband John RIGBY
Born:
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Died:
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Wife Mary FISKE
Born: Abt 1561
Christened:
Died: 16 Jan 1650 - Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts
Buried:
Father: Nicholas FISKE (Abt 1517-1569)
Mother: Joan CRISPE (Abt 1527- )
Other Spouse: Anthony FISHER (1558-1640) - 16 Oct 1586 - Syleham, Suffolk, England
Other Spouse: Edward BRECK ( - )
Children
General Notes (Wife)
Mary Fiske's ancestors are consistently found in the neighborhood of Laxfield, Suffolk, England, from the time of the Norman conquest. May have been there since the 9th century. Name means fish. One village where they lived was given a Germanic name for salmon lake. The Fisher family is as old in the same area.
Candler, a cousin, in a contemporary genealogical manuscript, says she married ___ Fisher of Syleham
Their position ranged from simple village yeomen to sheriff, and a different line may at a late date have become lords of a small manor. .Some of the family were wealthy clothiers. Mary's immediate ancestors were wheelwrights/ artisians, very prosperous, some sent sons to university to train for the clergy, and, partly because they also had Puritan leanings, some of those became Puritan clergy. One line of the family seems to have sent most of the numerous Fiske's that went to New England. This line contained a number of people who were fanatical Puritans and were severely persecuted for their cause.
Sources are an article in NEHGS, July 1997 (possibly see below), Sandra Wamsley (cited)
http://www.fiskes.co.uk/Richards_descendants.htm - Fiske Family Papers; web site on Fiske family of Suffolk, England, which reports extensive research in the parish and probate records for Laxfield and vicinity.
A posting in the [email protected] mailing list by Todd A. Farmerie in November 2004
REF: NEHGS vol151:292 and 300 (1997) articles on the ancestors of the Fishers of Dedham MS
The identity of Mary Fiske's parents is controversial. Several works on the family have advanced different reconstructions of the wills, court documents and church records from the area.
Here is the beginning of the 1932 NEHGR article on the Fiske family. (Article continues in installments over three years.) The article summarizes the earlier sources of information on the Suffolk roots of thsi family, then develops its own very different family tree.
A series of articles in 1997 NEHGR Anthony Fisher family, the Crispe family, and another family ancestral to Mary Fiske, identifies Mary's mother and changes which wife of her father was her mother. However they present no new arguments or information on the identity of her father, instead they refer to Moriarty's 1932-34 work.
The ancient Suffolk family of Fiske adn its connection with New England have long been known, and two books ... have been published about the family.
Fiske and Fish Family, by Frederick Clifton Pierce, Chicago, at Ancestry.com, and
The Fiske Family Papers, Henry Ffiske, in the family history collection at Brigham Young University libraries.
In spite of this the pedigree of the family has remained in great confusion and presents many difficulties... The American book is, in so far as teh pages dealing with the family in Enlgand are concerned, of little value, as teh very brief summaries of the wills there given contain numerous errors and omit many important details relating to the estates of the testators ... while the conclusions of the compiler are often incorrect. The Enlgish book contains much valuable material, but it is not as carefully compiled as it should be, with the result taht the pedigrees therein are often erroneous and misleading. From early times the family was very prolific, and the records... very voluminous and therefore confusing. In the American book the progenitor of the family in the fifteenth century, one branch of whose descendants became lords of the Manor of Stodleigh in Laxfield... is styled "Lord Symon Fiske", the compiler evidently being under teh impression that the lord of a manor and his remote ancestors were peers of the realm and entitled to be called "Lords". In the sixteenth century th ancestors of the American family exercised the useful but hardly noble calling of wheelwrights...
The pedigree of the branch which sent several members to America has been preserved in teh Candler Manuscripts, the better copy of which is in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. Matthias and Philip Candler, who were descendants of this branch and lived in the middle of the seventeenth century, were excellent genealogists, and they were sufficiently near the persons of whom tehy wrote to know the facts. The pedigree of the Laxfield-New England Fiskes, as given by the Candlers, begins with a certain Richard Fiske, who was living in the Braodgates of Laxfield in the middle of the sixteenth century." (Following is a discussion of why this Richard was teh son of Simon Fiske of Laxfield who wrote a will in 1536.) The ancestors of teh New England Fiskes were ntoable for their adherence to the Reformed Religion... At the time of the settlement of New Engalnd the Fiskes were a family of exceedingly prosperous artisians and yeomen, who sent several of their sons to the unversities, whence they went forth to become Puritan ministers."
Fiske and Fisk genealogy (Peirce) identifies Mary as the daughter of William Fiske and Anna Anstye (a number of variations of that last name exist), son of Robert Fiske and Sybilla (Gould) Barber. She is now identified as the daughter of this Robert's brother Nicholas Fiske and Joane Crispe.
There seem to have been a bunch of brothers. We seem to know they were brothers but they seem to have quite a number of fathers. The brothers include Robert, who married Sibylla (Gould) Barber, both of whom were persecuted for their Puritan beliefs; whose descendants include a grandson who wrote the Candler Manuscript, John Locke, quite a number of Fiske's who went to New England, including an outstanding minister and scholar who'd been persecuted in England, some fanatics, and three members of teh jury in the Salem witch trials; William, who was persecuted for his beliefs and whose grandson was executed at Bury St. Edmonds for killing his father;, Richard, who was persecuted for his beliefs, and Nicholas, who Foxe wrote in his book of martyrs was a brother in law of a Noyes of Suffolk who was burned at the stake.
Mary Fiske who married Anthony Fisher is variously supposed to have been a granddaughter of Robert, and the daughter of Nicholas. The theory that she is the daughter of Nicholas is more current and currently the accepted version, and I'm going by the family as put together by Moriarty in the NEHGR articles.
It does seem that every version on teh Internet, some of them put together on solid research, comes to slightly different conclusions.