John Metcalf (1622 - 1690)

Born 5 Sep 1622 in St. Benedicts, Norwich, Norfolk, England

Ancestors

Husband of Mary (Chickering) Metcalf — married 23 Mar 1647 in Dedham, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Descendants

Died 8 Oct 1690 at age 68 in Medfield, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Biography

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

This profile is part of the Metcalfe Name Study.

Birth/Baptism

05 Sep 1622 in Norwich, Norfolk, England, baptized St. Benedict Parish, Norwich ^[1][2]

15 May 1622 listed, unsourced, on his FindAGrave Memorial

Immigration

John with his father and his family left Ipswich in Suffolk, their last port in England, aboard the Rose on 15 April and arrived in Boston, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, on 8 June 1637.^[1]

Marriage

"[1647] John Metcalfe & Mary Chickering, was married the 23 of the 1 mo."^[3]

Medfield Activities

John settled in Medfield in 1652, just a year after the town got started. He served as selectman six years (1672, 1673, 1675, 1676, 1679, 1688), and was Commissioner in 1682.,^[4]

Death

John Metcalf (Medcalfe), Sr. died 8 October, 1690 in Medfield, Suffolk, Massachusetts. ^[5]

NOT: "Deaths [1675] John Metcalf, deceased 27: 9: 75."^[6] That seems to have been a different person, perhaps the son John born two months earlier, on 20:7:75, to Thomas and Sarah Metcalfe ^[7] It is clear from the probate records (see below) that this John, husband of Mary, died about 1691.

Burial

Vine Lake Cemetery, Medfield, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA ^[8]

Probate

John died intestate. The resolution of his estate took place over several years. A first distribution was made 1 March 1691 and a final settlement was agreed on 2 Dec 1697, after the decease of John's wife Mary. Distribution was made to Mary the widow, and children, John, Michael 1691 (his heirs in 1697), Elizabeth Davis 1691 (Ellice in 1697), Joseph, Experience (wife of Isaac Wheeler), Hannah (wife of Elisha Bullen), Mary (wife of Eleazer Ellice)^[9]

Children

Children of John and Mary Chickering Metcalf, first three born in Dedham, Suffolk, Massachusetts:^{[10] [11]}, one with a secondary source but no birth record yet found, and last four in Medfield, Suffolk, Massachusetts:^[12]

• John Medcalfe, b. "21 of the 1 mo.", 21 Mar 1648, bp. 16 Mar
• Michael Medcalfe, b. "20 of the 6 mo", 20 Aug 1650, bp. 25 Aug
• Mary Medcalfe, b. "9 of the 8 mo.", 9 Oct 1652, bp. 24 Oct, presumably died young
• Elizabeth, b. 1654??, married Joseph Ellis in 1695^[13]
• Joseph Medcalf, son, b. 22 Nov 1658
• Experience Medcalf, daughter, b. 13 Oct 1662, bp. 3 days later, married Isaac Wheeler
• Hanna Medcalfe, daughter, b. 13 Oct 1664, married Elisha Bullen
• Mary Medcalfe, daughter, b. 2 June 1668, married Eleazar Ellis

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Howard Hurtig Metcalfe, Some Descendants of Rev. Leonard Metcalf of Tatterford Parish, Norfolk, England, Mostly those of his son Michael the emigrant to Dedham, Massachusetts, in 1637 (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 2002), p. 5; p. 4, citing Banks, "Metcalf" NEHGR 80:313
2. ↑ Metcalf, Isaac Stevens. Metcalf genealogy. Cleveland: The Imperial press, 1898 p. 17
3. ↑ Don Gleason Hill, compiler, The Record of Baptisms, Marriages & Deaths ... Town of Dedham, MA, 1638-1845 (Dedham, MA: Town of Dedham, 1886) p. 126
4. ↑ Tilden, William Smith, The History of the Town of Medfield, Massachusetts . . . 1650 - 1886 (Boston, 1887, Geo. H. Ellis), pp. 74-102, 436
5. ↑ Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, (Boston: New-England Historic Genealogical Society, 1903), p. 223, listed as Medcalfe, John Sr.
6. ↑ Don Gleason Hill, compiler, The Record of Baptisms, Marriages & Deaths ... Town of Dedham, MA, 1638-1845 (Dedham, MA: Town of Dedham, 1886), p. 15
7. ↑ Don Gleason Hill, compiler, The Record of Baptisms, Marriages & Deaths ... Town of Dedham, MA, 1638-1845 (Dedham, MA: Town of Dedham, 1886), page 15
8. ↑ Find A Grave Memorial# 36289688
9. ↑ Suffolk County, MA: Probate File Papers. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2017. #1837 (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives. Digitized mages provided by FamilySearch.org https://www.americanancestors.org/DB2735/i/48697/1837-co1/0
10. ↑ Don Gleason Hill, compiler, The Record of Baptisms, Marriages & Deaths ... Town of Dedham, MA, 1638-1845 (Dedham, MA: Town of Dedham, 1886) pp. 4, 5,
11. ↑ Slafter, Carlos, The record of baptisms, marriages and deaths, and admissions to the church and dismissals therefrom, transcribed from the church records in the town of Dedham ... 1638-1845, pp. 30-33
12. ↑ Vital Records of Medfield, Massachusetts to the Year 1850, p. 71
13. ↑ Tilden, William Smith, History of the Town of Medfield, Massachusetts . . . 1650-1886, (Boston, 1887, Geo. H. Ellis), pp. 436, 375

• Jordan, John W. Genealogical and Personal History of Western Pennsylvania, Vol. 1 (Lewis Historical Pub. Co., New York, 1915, p. 46-49)