John PIKE ⁵⁰²⁷

  General Notes:

"John Pike came from England in the ship James to Newbury, Mass., 1635 with his grown family. He was one of the first settlers of Newbury. He is said to have been registered in the Customs House in Southampton as a "laborer of Langford." To quote Savage this was certainly done "to evade the despicable tyranny of the regulations" governing emigration. Joshua Coffin writes "No laborer of those days had two such educated sons as Robert and John Pike Jr; both were men of marked prominence in the colony." (Myers, 1995:739)." ⁵⁰²⁷

John married Dorothy DAY on 17 Jan 1613 in Whiteparish, , Wiltshire, England.⁵⁰²⁷ (Dorothy DAY died before 1654 in Newburyport, Essex Co., Massachusetts, USA ⁵⁰²⁷.)