John MacCoone (abt. 1630 - 1705)

Born about 1630 in Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Husband of Deborah (Bush) MacCoone — married 8 Sep 1656 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Husband of Sarah (Wood) MacCoone — married 14 Jan 1665 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts

Husband of Mary (Unknown) MacCoone — married 1668 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 8 Oct 1705 at about age 75 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

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MACKHOLME John MCHOLM; MACHOLM; MACHUM (Passenger(Prisoner) #150) from Dunbar on the John and Sara

Biography

John MacCoone arrived in New England around 1647.^[1]

John MacCoone is first recorded in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts in 1651. Many researchers say that John MacCoone was a soldier during the English Civil War, on the losing Royalist/Scottish side against Oliver Cromwell. When Cromwell won the war, or at least the major battles, he had 10,000 angry Scots prisoners on his hands, so he shipped 2,000 of them off to the Colonies as indentured servants, to get them out of the way and give them something productive to do. One of them was John MackHolme, who arrived in Boston on the ship John and Sarah in 1651. Coincidentally, a Scot Named John MacCoone is listed in the Cambridge (across the river from Boston) Presbyterian Church that same year. While it was common for names and spellings to be changed on arrival in the New World, there’s no proof that these two Johns were the same person.

The Cambridge John MacCoone had 14 children, from three wives, before he died in 1705 in Cambridge.

Married 1 Deborah Bush. Children: Hannah, Deborah, Sarah, Elizabeth.

Married 2 Sarah Wood. Children: John, Daniel. ^{[2] [3]} See Sarah's profile for questions on her identity.

Married 3 Mary Unknown. Children: Elizabeth, Margaret, Peter, Samuel, Isabel. ^[4]

John’s exceptional son (from his third wife Mary), Peter Macoon, was born in Cambridge in 1673, and his ultimate fate is unknown. Some sources say he died in Bound Brooke, Somerset County, New Jersey in 1759. John MacCoone died around May 1705. His will was written in 1697, filed 4 May 1705, Registered 1705, East Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. ^[5][6]

Sources

1. ↑ http://www.geni.com/people/John-MacCoone/6000000000445780382
2. ↑ Vital records of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the year 1850 by Cambridge (Mass.); Baldwin, Thomas W. (Thomas Williams), b. 1849, comp, Vol 2. Marriages and Deaths, Published 1914
3. ↑ A SHORT HISTORY OF THE COON FAMILY OF AMERICA - M.H.MIRES M.D.
4. ↑ THE DESCENDANTS OF JOHN MACCOONE OF CAMBRIDGE MASS. AND WESTERLY R.I. compiled BY Maxine Phelps Lines of Mesa, Az LDS Film 1, 597, 907 pg 262
5. ↑ Records from Church of Christ, Cambridge, Massachusetts
6. ↑ Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized images provided by FamilySearch.org) Middlesex Cases 14000-15999; Case 14446 dated 1705. https://www.americanancestors.org/DB536/rd/14464/14446-co1/263929672

• Births of Deborah, Elizabeth, Hannah and Sarah, children of John Macoone and Deborah, as found at [1]

• Births of Daniel and John, children of John Macoone and Sarah, as found at [2]

• Births of Margaret, Peter and Elizabeth, children of John Macoon and Mary, as found at [3]

• Marriage of John Macoon and Deborah Bush as found at [4]

• Marriage of John Macoon and Sarah Wood as found at [5]

• U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s//John Mackholme Arrival Year 1651 Arrival Place Boston, Massachusetts Source Publication Code 269 Primary Immigrant Mackholme, John Annotation Alphabetical list of passengers on the John and Sarah of London. Includes list of prisoners from the Battle of Dunbar who settled at Kittery and Lynn (now Berwick), Maine. Also in nos. 8170, 8171, Scotch Prisoners sent to Massachusetts in 1652; no. 0702, Boyer, Ship Passenger Lists, National and New England, pp. 158-161; and in no. 9143, Tepper, New World Immigrants, vol. 1, pp. 135-160.

• Scottish Covenanters Index// Name MCCOON, John Birth Date Abt 1635 Birthplace Scotland Notes bk 23 vol. 9 pg. 256 - beadle

• U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970//Volume: 304