Husband John COY
Born: 1658 - Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts
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Father: Richard COY (1625-1675)
Mother: Martha HAFFIELD (1627- )
Marriage: 23 Jun 1679 - Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts
Wife Elizabeth EDWARDS
Born: Abt 1650 - Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts
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Father: Rice EDWARDS (1615-Abt 1682)
Mother: Joan ( - )
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1 F Elizabeth COY
Born: Abt 1690 - Wenham, Massachusetts
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Spouse: Edward BOND (1689-1759)
Marr: 26 Jan 1709 - Beverly, Massachusetts
2 M Caleb COY
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3 M Matthew COY
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4 F Sarah COY
Born: 17 Mar 1695-17 Mar 1696 - Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts
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5 F Mary COY
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6 M John COY
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John Coy was the son of Richard Coy of Salisbury, Massachusetts and his wife Martha Haffield. John was born about 1655, probably in Salisbury. John's brother Caleb and his father were both killed in King Phillip's War. John Coy married Elizabeth Edwards in Beverly on June 23, 1679. She was the daughter of Rice Edwards and his wife Eleanor, born about 1657. John and Elizabeth had five or six children in Beverly, then moved to Wenham, where they had one or two more. They had seven children in all. John died about 1733, location unknown. Information for this biography is from Savage's Genealogical Dictionary and records of the Towns of Beverly and Wenham, Massachusetts.
General Notes for Child Elizabeth COY
Her parents named in "Descendants of John Bond".
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Husband Matthew COY
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Buried: 10 Apr 1638 - Stamford, Lincolnshire, England
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1 M Richard COY
Born: 1625 - Boston, Lincolnshire, England
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Died: 2 Aug 1675 - Brookfield, Worcester, Massachusetts
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Spouse: Martha HAFFIELD (1627- )
Marr: Abt 1652
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Richard Coy, the elder, lived in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England. The name of his wife was Luciana or Lucy Lenten. They had at least three children, Richard, Matthew & Luciana or Lucy. Richard the elder died in April of 1638 in Stamford. His wife must have died earlier, for the children came to New England the year of Richard's death. Information for this biography is from "Origin of Matthew & Richard Coy, in 1638 of Boston, Mass." by John G. Hunt, NEGBR, Vol. 113, page 236.
General Notes for Child Richard COY
BIOGRAPHY OF RICHARD COY, THE IMMIGRANT Richard Coy, of Salisbury, Massachusetts, brother of Mathew, was born in England about 1625 and came to New England with his brother in 1638 at the age of 13. He married Martha Haffield, daughter of Richard Haffield and his wife Martha. One of their sons, Caleb, born August 15, 1666, was killed by Indians at Brookfield, at the beginning of King Phillip's War. Richard Coy also died while fighting in King Phillip's War. He was killed by Indians near Brookfield, Massachusetts during the famous Swamp Fight on August 2, 1675 and is buried, along with the others who fell there, near Wickabog Pond in West Brookfield. Information for this biography is from Savage's Genealogical Dictionary; records of the Town of Beverly; "Origin of Matthew & Richard Coy, in 1638 of Boston, Mass." by John G. Hunt; NEGBR, Vol. 113, page 236, vol. 3, p. 156 and vol. 5, p. 181 and Hotten's "Original Lists" pages 48, 55, 56.
Husband Richard COY
Born: 1625 - Boston, Lincolnshire, England
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Wife Martha HAFFIELD
Born: 1627 - Sudbury, Suffolk, England
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Father: Richard HAFFIELD (Abt 1581-1639)
Mother: Martha ( - )
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1 M John COY
Born: 1658 - Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts
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Died: 1 Mar 1737-1 Mar 1738 - Wenham, Essex, Massachusetts
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Spouse: Elizabeth EDWARDS (Abt 1650-Bef 1737)
Marr: 23 Jun 1679 - Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts
2 M Caleb COY
Born: 15 Aug 1666 - Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts
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3 M Jebuz COY
Born: 16 Jun 1660 - Malden, Massachusetts
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4 M Richard COY
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5 M Hatfield COY
Born: 1662 - Malden, Massachusetts
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BIOGRAPHY OF RICHARD COY, THE IMMIGRANT Richard Coy, of Salisbury, Massachusetts, brother of Mathew, was born in England about 1625 and came to New England with his brother in 1638 at the age of 13. He married Martha Haffield, daughter of Richard Haffield and his wife Martha. One of their sons, Caleb, born August 15, 1666, was killed by Indians at Brookfield, at the beginning of King Phillip's War. Richard Coy also died while fighting in King Phillip's War. He was killed by Indians near Brookfield, Massachusetts during the famous Swamp Fight on August 2, 1675 and is buried, along with the others who fell there, near Wickabog Pond in West Brookfield. Information for this biography is from Savage's Genealogical Dictionary; records of the Town of Beverly; "Origin of Matthew & Richard Coy, in 1638 of Boston, Mass." by John G. Hunt; NEGBR, Vol. 113, page 236, vol. 3, p. 156 and vol. 5, p. 181 and Hotten's "Original Lists" pages 48, 55, 56.
General Notes (Wife)
Martha, daughter of Richard Haffield and his wife Martha, probably grew up in Ipswich, Massachusetts. She married Richard Coy, who was born in England about 1625 and came to New England with his brother in 1638 at the age of 13. One of their sons, Caleb, born August 15, 1666, was killed by Indians at Brookfield, at the beginning of King Phillip's War. Her husband Richard Coy also died while fighting in King Phillip's War. He was killed by Indians near Brookfield, Massachusetts during the famous Swamp Fight on August 2, 1675 and is buried, along with the others who fell there, near Wickabog Pond in West Brookfield. The rest of Martha's life is not documented. She may have remarried and died with a different name. Information for this biography is from Savage's Genealogical Dictionary; records of the Town of Beverly; "Origin of Matthew & Richard Coy, in 1638 of Boston, Mass." by John G. Hunt; NEGBR, Vol. 113, page 236, vol. 3, p. 156 and vol. 5, p. 181 and Hotten's "Original Lists" pages 48, 55, 56.
General Notes for Child John COY
John Coy was the son of Richard Coy of Salisbury, Massachusetts and his wife Martha Haffield. John was born about 1655, probably in Salisbury. John's brother Caleb and his father were both killed in King Phillip's War. John Coy married Elizabeth Edwards in Beverly on June 23, 1679. She was the daughter of Rice Edwards and his wife Eleanor, born about 1657. John and Elizabeth had five or six children in Beverly, then moved to Wenham, where they had one or two more. They had seven children in all. John died about 1733, location unknown. Information for this biography is from Savage's Genealogical Dictionary and records of the Towns of Beverly and Wenham, Massachusetts.
Husband Richard COY
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Wife Sarah COY
Born: 17 Mar 1695-17 Mar 1696 - Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts
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Father: John COY (1658-1737)
Mother: Elizabeth EDWARDS (Abt 1650-Bef 1737)
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Husband Lt. Joshua HEWES
Born: 1606 - Royston, Hertfordshire, England
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Father: John HEWES (1583-1621)
Mother: Mary FOOTE (Abt 1588-1685)
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Other Spouse: Alice WIDOW CRABTREE ( - ) - 11 Feb 1657
Other Spouse: Mary GOLDSTONE ( - )
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Husband William CRAMPHORNE
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1 F Mary CRAMPHORNE
Born: 27 Sep 1562 - Sawbridgeworth, Hertsfordshire, England
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Husband William HEATH
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Died: 29 May 1652 - Roxbury, Massachusetts
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Father: William HEATH (Abt 1550-1624)
Mother: Agnes CHENEY (Abt 1560- )
Marriage: 1617 - Great Amwell, Hertfordshire, England
Other Spouse: Mary PERRY ( - ) - 22 Jan 1622-22 Jan 1623 - Gilston, Hertordshire, England
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Richardson, Daniel. The Heath Connection: English origins of Isaac and William Heath of Roxbury Massachusetts, John Johnson, Edward Morris and Elizaabeth (Morris) Cartwright.
Reportsw on Ray G. Hurlburt, Capt John Johnson and his wife, Margery of Roxbury, Who were they? in TAG, 22 (1945-6); 47-49. Wills established relationships but took no position on what teh relationships were. Richardson suspected the mother of Edard Morris and Elizabeth Morris who married Edward Cartwright, was the sister of Mary, Isaac and William Heath.
In 1945 Walter Goodwin Davis proved that prior to migration William Heath lived in the aprish of Nazeing, Essex. The parson at Nazeing was Rev. John Eliot, who later became famous in America as "the Apostle to the Indians". William Heath had three children baptized at Nazeing in the period 1625-9, altohough it was not his home parish. Davis documented that William's wife, Mary, was the daughter of Thomas Crampthorne of nearby Sawbrdigeworth, Hertfordshire, Da.
William Heath lived in the parish of Great Amwell, Hertfordshire, prior to living at Nazeing, Essex,. (NEHGR, 132: 20-21. The Great Amwell parish registers show tahat William Heath married his first wife, Mary Cramphorne, there in 1617. Elder Isaac Heath also lived in the adjacent parish of Ware, Hertfordshire, wehre in 1629 he married Elizabeth Miller. He was identified as possibly being the Isaac Heath baptized at Ware on 13 Feb 1585/6.
Richardson here reconstructs the Heath and allied families of Ware and Greater Amwell.
From Great Migration Begins
WILLIAM HEATH
ORIGIN: Nazeing, Essex MIGRATION: 1632 on Lyon [ Hotten FIRST RESIDENCE: Roxbury
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: "He came to this land in the year 1632 & soon after joined to the church [at Roxbury]. He brought 5 children, Mary, Isaac, Mary, Peleg, Hannah" .
FREEMAN: 4 March 1632/3 [ MBCR <javascript:APop(p16657,150,180);> 1:367].
EDUCATION: Signed his name as witness to the will of John Grave but made his mark to his own will.
OFFICES: Deputy to General Court for Roxbury, 14 May 1634, 18 April 1637, 17 May 1637, 13 March 1638/9, 22 May 1639, 4 September 1639, 13 May 1640, 7 October 1640, 7 October 1641, 8 September 1642
. Magistrate for particular court, 25 May 1636. Committee to "consider of the act of Mr. Endicott, in defacing the colors," 6 May 1635 [. Committee to distribute "land & meadow at Conihasset," 13 May 1640 . Committee to value livestock, 13 May 1640 . Committee to "settle things between Hingham & the plantation to be settled at Nantasket [," 2 June 1641. Committee to "levy & proportion a rate of £800," 14 June 1642 . Committee to "consider whether in trial of causes to retain or dismiss juries," 27 September 1642 . Committee "to consider of the order for the burning of grounds," 14 May 1645 . On 22 May 1651 at "the request of William Heath, of Roxbury, being above sixty years of age, this Court thinks meet he should be exempted from all trainings" .
ESTATE: William Heath died at Roxbury just before the land inventory was taken there. The fourth entry in this land inventory, immediately after that of Rev. John Eliot, is for Isaac Heath, son of William. As there is a later, shorter, entry for Isaac Heath, as well as one for his younger brother Peleg Heath , this early entry would contain the lands which had been granted to the immigrant. At the time of the Roxbury land inventory William Heath's widow would have held a life interest in these lands, which were at her death to be divided between the two sons. Thus, before his death William Heath held twelve parcels of land, nine by grant from the town and three by purchase: "dwelling house, barn, orchard and houselot, three acres"; "fourteen acres of salt marsh"; "six acres of upland in the calve's pasture"; "six acres of saalt marsh in Gravelly point"; "four acres of upland at Stoney River"; "four and twenty acres not far from Gamblin's End"; "sixteen acres at the Great Pond"; "six acres ... lately bought of Mr. William Perkins"; "in the second allotment of the last division being the eleventh lot ... ninety-four acres, three quarters and thirty pole"; "in the four thousand acres two-hundred fifty and six acres"; "three roods of swamp land lately the land of John Stow"; and "four acres ... lately the land of Richard Pepper, lying in the upper calve's pasture" . In his will, dated 28 May 1652 and proved 21 October 1652, "Will[ia]m Heath of Roxbury" bequeathed to "my loving wife" the new end of my house that I now dwell in both above and below and half the great barn and half the barn yard, also all my arable land and meadow, also my cattle and moveables, on condition that she pay all debts, and pay "my daughter Mary Spere" £10 and "my daughter Hannah" £10; "my son Isaac" presently to possess the old end of my dwelling house with convenient yard room for his wood, also half the great barn and barnyard during my wife's life; "my two sons" to have all my houses and lands, "my son Isaac being my eldest son" a double portion and "my son Pelig" a single portion; to "my daughter Mary that I had by my first wife 40s. a year out of all my lands to be paid by both my sons" and "I do entreat my wife in the mean season to have a motherly care over her and see that she want nothing that is convenient for her"; "my three friends ... my dear brother Elder Heath, John Rugles, & Phillip Elliott" overseers . BIRTH: By 1591 son of William and Agnes (Cheney) Heath of Ware, Hertfordshire [ NEHGR 146:266-68, 149:173-86]. DEATH: Roxbury 29 May 1652 ("William Heath, an able godly & faithful brother died" ).
MARRIAGE: (1) Great Amwell, Hertfordshire, 10 February 1616/7 Mary Crampthorne; she was baptized at Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, 16 January 1591/2, daughter of Thomas and Mary (Lyndesell) Crampthorne; she was buried at Great Amwell 24 November 1621, as "the wife of William Heath of Ware End." (2) Gilston, Hertfordshire, 29 January 1622/3 Mary Perry of Sawbridgeworth; she accompanied her husband to Roxbury in 1632, and was admitted to Roxbury church with him; she was buried at Roxbury 15 December 1659 ("Our aged Sister Heath the widow of Wil. Heath was buried".
[Emigrants from Hertfordshire, 1630-1640, NEHGR, 1978, p 20, reports confusion regarding the order of the two wives, and also whose children were whose, but this should straighten it out.]
CHILDREN:
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i MARY, bp. Great Amwell 10 May 1618; living unmarried 28 May 1652, the date of her father's will, and from the wording of the bequest, she was probably incapable of caring for herself.
ii ISAAC, bp. Great Amwell 21 May 1621; m. Roxbury 16 December 1650 Mary Davis.
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iii Stillborn daughter, bur. Ware 27 November 1623.
iv PELEG, bp. Nazeing 30 January 1624/5; m. by 1652 Susanna _____. (In her 14 June 1652 will, widow Dorothy King bequeathed to "my daughter Susanna Heath one little flockbed"; Dorothy King was three times a widow and Susanna was daughter of her first husband, who may have been a Barker [ Weymouth Hist 3:22, 312, 349-50].)
v MARY, bp. Nazeing 2 September 1627; m. by 1644 George Spear (called "Mary Spere" in her father's will; child bp. 21 April 1644 [ RChR 115]; see also Annis Spear Anc 3).
vi HANNAH, bp. Nazeing 5 November 1629; m. by 1658 as his first wife Isaac Jones (daughter Hannah b. Dorchester 20 November 1658 and bp. there 21 November 1658; Elizabeth (Miller) Heath, widow of Isaac Heath, uncle of this Hannah Heath, made a bequest on 1 January 1664[/5] of 15s. to "Isaack Jones his daughter that he had by Hannah Heath" , leading to the conclusion that the Hannah Jones who died at Dorchester on 28 November 1658 was the wife of Isaac and not the daughter.
ASSOCIATIONS: William's brother, Isaac Heath, came to Roxbury, 1635 in the Hopewell. JOHN JOHNSON of Roxbury married in England to Mary Heath, sister of William and Isaac; Edward Morris and his sister Elizabeth (Morris) Cartwright were nephew and niece to William and Isaac through their mother Prudence Heath; Martha (Heath) Brand, wife of George Brand of Roxbury, was first cousin of William Heath [ NEHGR 146:261-78]. COMMENTS: Savage and Davis say he was deputy from Dover in 1645 [, but this was William Hilton who was deputy for that town in earlier years. William Heath witnessed the 1644 will of John Grave, who mentioned him as one of "my two friends, Phillip Eliot & Will[ia]m Heath" .
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: For many years the best treatment in print of William Heath was that published by Walter Goodwin Davis in 1945 [ 29-34]. In 1978 Peter Walne found a few additional items, mostly relating to the marriages of William Heath [ NEHGR(p16674,110,132);> 132:20-21]. In 1992 Douglas Richardson published an article which detailed the English origin of William Heath and his brother Isaac Heath, as well as others as noted above [ NEHGR (p16674,110,132); 146:261-78]; unless otherwise noted, the parish register entries above are from this article. In 1995 Richardson published an article supplementing that of 1992, solidifying the evidence that the immigrants William and Isaac Heath were sons of William of Ware, and identifying their mother [ NEHGR (p16674,110,132); 149:173-86].
From Emigrants from Herfordshire 1630-1640, NEHGR, Jan 1978, pp 20-21, discussion of William Heath.
In his treatment of William Heath, Walter Goodwin Davis credits Heath with two wives, the first unknown and the second, Mary Crampthorne, who accompanied him to New England. Evidence from some Hertfordshire parish registers indicates that the order of wives is wrong; moreover, there is some confusion as to the assignment of children to the two wives.
On 10 Feb 1616/7, he married at Graet Amwell, Mary Crampthorne, and by her had two children bpatized tehre. In both cases he is identified as of "Ware End" of the parish. On Nov 24, 1624, Mary, wife of William Heath of Ware End, was buried at Great Amwell.
On 22 Jan 1622/3, William Heath of Amwell and Mary Perry of Swabrdigeworth were married at Gilston, a nearby parish. No children of this marriage were baptized at Great Amwell. However, three children, Peleg, Mary and Hannah, were baptized at Nazeing just across the county boundary in Essex. William's second wife, Mary, may have been the daughter of JOhn Perry and baptized at Sawbrdigeworth 27 Jun 1602. This JOhn can probalby be identified as he who married Annes Peerce at Sawbridgeworth on 5 Oct 1585.
Two daugthers, both baptized Mary, were born of these marriages. Heath's will shows clearly taht both of these daugthers survived to adulthood and came to New England. The reason for naming a seonc daughter Mary was undoubtedly that the first was infirmed from childhood, as shown from William Heath's will:
To my daughter Mary that I had by my ffirst wife fforty shillings a yere out of all my lands to be paid by both my sonns... duirng the whole tyme of her natural life and they to begin at the tyme of her mother's death and they to enter on the land and I doe entreate my wife in teh season to have motherly care over hir and se yt she want nothing that is convenient for her.
By my math the wives don't add up; Mary Crampthorne, wife number one, died 24 Nov 1624, and William married Mary Perry of Sawbrdigeworth at Gilston on 22 Jan 1622/3 (1623), and she was also named Mary, and came to NEw England with William. ????? On the other hand, Great Migration Begins, above, following "The Heath Connection", NEHGR 1992, gives the date of death of the first wife as 30 Jan 1621. The original date must have been a mistype.
William's baptism is not found at Ware. Peter Walne, County Archivist for Herfordshire, suggests that William may have been born at Great Amwell during the period, 1586 to 1590, where there is a gap in the records.