John Lake (bef. 1617)

Born before 6 Jul 1617 in Wickford, Essex, England

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Biography

Birth

John Lake was baptized in Wickford, Essex, on 6 July 1617. ^[1] Possibly it is this John who is "mentioned in the will of his grandfather, Edmund Reade of Wickford, dated Nov. 20, 1623; probably that son of John and Margaret (Reade) Lake who was mentioned as dead by Mrs. Lucy Downing, when she wrote, on Jan. 30, 1657/8, from Edinburgh to Fitz John Winthrop: 'Your uncle, Collonell Reade, was, a month or two since, with us, . . . and (said) that God had takne (sic) a sonn of his sister Lackes that was with him, and was very hopefull for further preferment.'"

However, it may be his younger brother Thomas for whom Walter Goodwin Davis also could not find further information. If the Reade letter does date to 1658, both would be 41 and 39 years old respectively and "established." Of course, anyone associated with Col. Thomas Reade would hope for preferment; Reade had been an important officer in the New Model Army since its founding in 1645.

If so intimately associated with Reade, looking to the records of the New Model Army and Cromwell's regime for both John Lake and Thomas Lake could prove fruitful. A list with emendations of the initial Army officers was located, but no Lakes are listed.^[2]

Research Notes

Statement: Death date BEF 1657/1658 Place: Gravesend, Kings, Long Island, Later NY

Comment: This about date and location derives from this 2007 tree - https://www2.rockisland.com/~doebee/genealogy/html/catlin.ged. A review indicates the usual confusion of several Lake families. This death location is attached to this John above with no sources provided.

• Asking Google the correct prompt yields the result that, yes, there IS a John Lake resident in Gravesend. That is this John Lake, husband of Ann Spicer, Their profiles are supervised by the New Netherlands project. They have removed any connections to the Lakes of co. Essex as clearly unproven.

Statement: Profile Lake-345 had a death date of 6 August 1677.

Comment: That is John Lake, merchant-tailor of Boston, brother of Captain Thomas Lake, also of Boston. Neither is a relation to this Lake family of co. Essex. See Jacobus, Goodyear of New Haven ^[3] Robert M. Gerrity, 2.24.24

Sources

1. ↑ WalterGoodwin Davis, The Ancestry of Bethis harris.... (Portland, Maine: The Southworth Press, 1934):55 at https://archive.org/details/ancestryofbethia00davi/page/54/mode/2up
2. ↑ Robert K. J. Temple, The Original Officer List of the New Model Army [10 March 1645], downloadable at https://www.robert-temple.com/papers/Offprint-OfficerList.pdf
3. ↑ Jacobus, Donald Lines, "Deputy-Governor Stephen Goodyear of New Haven, Reverend John Bishop of Stamford, and the Lake and Watts Families of Boston," The American Genealogist Vol. 16:193, at archive.org: [1]

See also:

• Anderson, Robert Charles, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols. (Boson: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995), 92-97 (Robert Barker); digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors, pp. 725-8, at p. 726, see son John Gallop in profile of John Gallop, citing TAG 68:13; Bethia Harris Ancestry 55; NEHGR 84:316.

• Jacobus, Donald Lines, "Deputy-Governor Stephen Goodyear of New Haven, Reverend John Bishop of Stamford, and the Lake and Watts Families of Boston," The American Genealogist Vol. 16:193, at pages 197-198. (Link by $ubscrription.) and at archive.org: [2]
• Peck, S. Allyn, "The English Ancestry of the Lake Family of Boston, Massachusetts, and of Sir Edward Lake, Baronet, of England," The American Genealogist 22(1945):71-80 (Link by $ubscription.)
• Davis, Walter Goodwin, BA, LLB of Portland, ME. Ancestry of John Lake, Husband of Margaret (Reade) Lake. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, v. 84 (1930), pp. 304-317. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001).