No record has been found of the birth of Joanna Strout. She was born about 1693, based on her age at her death as recorded on her gravestone.[1] She was almost certainly the daughter of Christopher Strout and Sarah (Pike) Strout.[2] No documentary evidence has been found to prove the relationship, but there were no other Strout families in the area at the time, and her estimated birth date of 1693 fits nicely into the list of the Strouts' known children. Her mother and four of her siblings were baptized at Truro in 1712,[3] but by that time Joanna had already married. If the birth date of 1693 is accurate, she was probably born in the unincorporated area of Cape Cod, then officially named the "Province Lands," which became the town of Provincetown in 1727; by 1692 Christopher and Sarah Strout had settled there.[2]
Marriages
Joanna Strout married Eleazer Atwood at Eastham, Massachusetts, on 14 jun 1709.[4][5]
Joanna (Strout) Atwood and William Covell Jr. published their intention to marry at Eastham, Massachusetts, on 1 Jun 1734.[6] and they married there on 27 Jun 1734.[7]
Death and Burial
Joanna (Atwood) Covell's gravestone at the old cemetery at Chequesset Neck in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, shows her death date as 16 Jan 1736 and says that she died in her 44th year. A list of cemetery records published in The Mayflower Descendant in 1908 gives the date as 1736/37, but it states that its source is the inscriptions on the gravestones,[8] and the photo of the gravestone on FindAGrave shows clearly that the date given is only "Jan 26 1736."[1]
↑ 2.02.1 Dorothy Brewer Erikson, Descendants of Thomas Brewer, Connecticut to Maine, 1682-1996, with Allied Families (Boston, 1996), 493
↑ Baptisms on 26 Oct 1712 of "Sarah the wife of Christopher Strout and Joseph Anthony Lydia and Deborah their children" reported in "Truro, Mass,, Church Records," The Mayflower Descendant, 9:55 (1907), online at AmericanAncestors.org]
↑ "Eastham and Orleans, Mass., Vital Records," The Mayflower Descendant, 8:13 (1906), online at AmericanAncestors.org
Note: Jean L. Franks, 1013 Jacoby St., Schofield, WI 54476
NS112203
Source Media Type: Electronic
Title: Massachusetts & Maine Family Histories, 1650's - 1930's
Abbreviation: Massachusetts & Maine Family Histories, 1650's - 1930's
Note: NS204233
Source Media Type: Book
Acknowledgments
This person was created through the import of dyermaeettaaug2010.ged on 10 September 2010.
WikiTree profile Strout-325 created through the import of Goodwin-2011.ged on Jan 27, 2012 by Steve Goodwin.
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