Henry Chamberlain (abt. 1619 - 1678)

Born about 1619 in England

Husband of Sarah (Jones) Chamberlain — married about 1651 in Hingham, Massachusetts Bay Colony [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 6 Dec 1678 at about age 59 in Hull, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Biography

Henry Chamberlain immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).

Henry Chamberlin, born about 1619 in England. He would have been 21 or older when he was made a Freeman in May 1645 at Hingham, Massachusetts.

He had land granted him in 1638 by the town of Hingham.^[1]

He finally settled in Hull, Suffolk Co., before 1657, when granted 8 lots there. He was a townsman at Hull in 1661. In 1661, Henry and his father presented a petition to the General Court on behalf of his brother John, who had been imprisoned for his Quaker beliefs. Henry and his brother William were named as joint executors of their father's will dated 8 December 1673 and proved 29 July 1674, in which Henry was called "eldest son."

He married Sarah Jones about 1651; she was the daughter of Thomas Jones and his wife Ann Linney Jones.^[2]

Death and Will

Henry dictated his own will the day before he died. The inventory of his estate was dated 6 December 1678. A lawsuit ensued in 1710 between Henry's widow, Sarah, and her daughter-in-law, Jane, widow of Sarah's deceased son, Henry, Jr.

Henry died between 2 Dec 1678 (will) and 14 Jan 1678/9 (probate)

Henry's will was dated 2 Dec 1678.

Henry Chamberlin of Hull, Suffolke, New England, blacksmith, weak in body, requested that his debts be paid. He named his wife Sarah Chamberlain, children not of age, daughter Milton, Robert, other four daughters, two sons Henry and Benjamin Chamberlin.

The will was proved in court 14 Jan 1678.^[3]

Children:^[4]

1. Sarah Chamberlain bap. at Hingham on 6 June 1652. m. prob. at Hull before 2 Dec 1678, to Robert Milton/Melton. He d. at Hull on 15 Nov 1702. Sarah d. at Hingham on 6 June 1752.
2. Henry Chamberlain b. at Hull abt 1654. m. Jane ____ abt 1682. He was a blacksmith. d at Hull on 6 May 1706. (more info at NEHGR142)
3. Benjamin Chamberlain prob. bap. at Hingham as "Benj." on 18 May 1662. Prob. m. Mary Wright, dau. of Edward on 13 Oct 1685. (see more at NEHGR142)
4. Mary Chamberlain prob. b. at Hull abt 1664. m. at Hingham 13 Oct 1685 (same date as brother Benjamin) as his 2nd wife, Thomas Sawyer. She died probably at Hingham before May 21, 1713.
5. Jane Chamberlain was a minor when her father made his will in 1678.
6. Unnamed Daughter who was a minor in 1678.
7. Joanna was a minor in 1678. Perhaps d. 25 Sep 1735 as Joanna, wife of James Phippen who d. 29 Dec 1735; son of George and Elizabeth (_____) Phippen.^[5][6]

Research Notes

• Previoiusly this profile had "He arrived in Hingham about 1638 with his mother, wife, and two children.^[1]" This has been deleted because Ethel Farrington Smith's article "Seventeenth Century Hull, Massachusetts and Her People", p. 351 indicates it was Henry Chamberlain the shoemaker who arrived with wife, mother, and two children. Additionally the reference to Sarah Jones being his second wife has been deleted. ^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} History of the town of Hingham, Massachusetts. Thomas T Bouvé; Edward Tracy Bouvé; John Davis Long; Walter Lincoln Bouvé; Francis Henry Lincoln; George Lincoln; Edmund Hersey; Fearing Burr; Charles Winfield Scott Seymour; Hingham (Mass.). (1893). Pub. by the town. Vol II, p.121
2. ↑ Torrey, Clarence Almon. New England Marriages Prior to 1700. Baltimore, MD: Genalogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1985. Page 142.
3. ↑ Suffolk County (Massachusetts) Probate Records, 1636-1899; Author: Massachusetts. Probate Court (Suffolk County); Probate Place: Suffolk, Massachusetts. Probate Records, Vol 5-7, 1666-1674. Accessed at Ancestry ($) Clerk's copy.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.) Ethel Farrington Smith. "Seventeenth Century Hull, Massacusetts and Her People." Vol. 142, pp 352, 353.subscription
5. ↑ Thomas W. Baldwin. "Vital records of Hull, Massachusetts, to the year 1850." Wright & Potter Printing Co., Boston, MA (1911).see at archive.org
6. ↑ The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .) Donald Lines Jacobus. "The Phippen Family and The Wife of Nathan Gold of Fairfield, Connecticut." Vol. 17 (1940) p. 18.subscriber$