Jane (Haburne) Grant (1602 - abt. 1696)

Born 10 Oct 1602 in Cottingham, Yorkshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of Thomas Grant — married 21 Sep 1624 in Cottingham, Yorkshire, England

Descendants

Died about 1696 at about age 93 in Rowley, Essex, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Jane Haburne, daughter of Ralph Haburne and Maud Jekyll, was baptized 10 October 1602 at St. Mary the Virgin Church in Cottingham, Yorkshire, England. As written in the parish register in the East Riding Archives and transcribed by Tracy Eliot Hazen:

1602 Jana Habron fil Radulphi decimo die Octobris.^[1]

On 21 September 1624, Jane married Thomas Grant at St. Mary the Virgin Church in Cottingham. As written in the parish register in the East Riding Archives and transcribed by Tracy Eliot Hazen:

1624 Thomas Grant et Jana Haberne vicesimo primo Septembris.^[1]

From 1621 to 1638, Rev. Ezekiel Rogers was rector at St. Peter’s Church in Rowley, Yorkshire, England before he was suspended for his Puritan practices. In response, Rev. Rogers gathered about thirty Puritan families from the area, including the Grant family, to emigrate to New England. Although the Grants worshipped at St. Mary the Virgin Church in Cottingham, it is likely that, as Puritans, the Grants had occasionally heard the controversial Rev. Rogers preach and answered his call to nearby parishes to emigrate.^[2] (St. Peter’s church in Rowley, England commemorated the migration of Rev. Roger’s families to Rowley, Massachusetts with a stained-glass window.)

In the summer of 1638, Thomas and Jane (Haburne) Grant came to America aboard the ship "John of London" with Rev. Rogers as part of the Great Puritan Migration.^[2] The ship was captained by George Lamberton during its voyage from Hull, Yorkshire to Boston, Massachusetts. (The voyage was also notable for bringing the first printing press to North America.)^[3]

This voyage was corroborated from the deposition of Samuel Stickney of Bradford, Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts in 1698: “I testify that I came over from England to New England in the same ship with Thomas Grant and Jane Grant, his wife, who brought with them Foure Children, by name John, Hannah, Frances, & Ann ... And the said John being deceased, I do affirm that the Sisters of John Grant above named, now by Marriage known by the names of Hannah Brown, Frances Keyes & Ann Emerson are the same that came over with their Father & Mother and by them owned with said John for their children.^[4]

"On the arrival of Mr. Ezekiel Rogers, with about twenty families in December 1638, the forenamed towns of Salem, Charlestown, Boston, Medford, Watertown, Roxbury, Lynn and Dorchester, together with Cambridge, Ipswich, Newbury, weymouth, Hingham, Concord, Dedham, and Braintree, were all occupied. They therefore spent the winter in Salem, improving the time in looking out a place for a plantation.”

Several of the families, along with Rev. Rogers, eventually removed to Rowley. "The precise time of their removal to Rowley is not known. It was probably as early as the last of April or first of May, 1639."^[5]

By 1643 or earlier, Jane was a widow proprietor in Rowley. On Bradford Street, Jane had "one lott containing one acree and an half, bounded on the south side by Maximilian Jewett's house lott, part of it on the west side and part of it on the east side of the street."^[6]She was taxed in 1653 for two cows in Rowley.^[4][1]

There is no record for Jane's death in Rowley. Both Hazen and Gage, however, indicate Jane died in 1696 in Rowley.^[1][7]

Children

Children of Thomas Grant and Jane Haburne, all baptized at St. Mary the Virgin in Cottingham, East Riding, Yorkshire, England:

1. Jane Grant baptized 8 March 1625/6, buried 12 March 1625/6.^[8]
2. John Grant baptized 5 March 1627/8, died 18 March 1696/7 at Rowley, Massachusetts..^[1]
3. George Grant baptized 16 April 1629, died young.^[1]
4. Hannah Grant baptized 16 October 1631, died February 1715/16. Married 1st Edward Hazen, 2nd Capt. George Brown.^[1]
5. Frances Grant baptized 12 June 1634, died after 1702. Married Solomon Keyes.^[1]
6. Ann Grant baptized 21 December 1637, died 28 July 1718. Married Robert Emerson.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8} Hazen, Tracy Elliot, Robert Hazen, and Donald Lines Jacobus. The Hazen Family In America: a Genealogy by Tracy Elliot Hazen, PH. D., Page 31. (Thomaston, Conn.: R. Hazen, 1947).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Of Graveyards and Things. Website
3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_of_London_(ship)
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1} Blodgette, George Brainerd. Early Settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts Rowley, Massachusetts, 1933. Pages 124-5.
5. ↑ Gage, Thomas. History of Rowley. Boston, 1840. page 120-121
6. ↑ Gage, Thomas. History of Rowley. Boston, 1840.Page 125
7. ↑ Gage, Thomas. History of Rowley. Boston, 1840.Page 130
8. ↑ Hazen, Tracey Elliot. The Hazen family in America. New Haven, Conn. 1947. Page 11.