John (Purcas) Purchase (abt. 1612 - 1645)

Born about 1612 in England

Descendants

Died 29 Oct 1645 at about age 33 in Hartford, Connecticut

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John (Purcas) Purchase migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See The Directory, by R. C. Anderson, p. 274) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

Biography

Nothing is known of John Purchase prior to his receiving a right in six acres of Hartford undivided land in Feb 1639/40.^[1] John "Purchas" is named on the Hartford Founders Monument.

He owned several parcels of land on the Connecticut River as of Feb 1639/40: two acres with house and garden; one acre in the pine field, a small field in the soldier's field, four acres on the east side of the great river; roughly five acres in the cow pasture; about four acres in the little oxpasture; another four acres in the cow pasture that he purchased of William Cornwell.^[2]

John Purkas made his will 15 Oct 1645. He made his wife sole executrix leaving her his whole estate to bring up their children and for her lifetime, except that she can't sell it, without the consent of John Talcotte and Richard Goodman, who also witnessed the will. He makes elaborate provision for a possible son, his wife then being pregnant. He also made bequests to his daughters Mary and Elizabeth.^[3]

An inventory of John's goods was taken in Oct 1645.^[3]

John's wife remarried: "Nickolas Pammor was maryed vnto Jone Purkes Octobr the twenty Nyne one Thoufaind Six hundredth forty & Six."^[4]

In 1663 Jerret Speck received from Nicholas Palmer ten pounds, his wife's portion of her father's estate, and Richard Case received daughter, Elizabeth Purhase's, ten pounds.^[3]

In 1675 Nicholas Palmer wrote the deed gaving John's daughter's their real estate.^[2]

"This is a true coppy compared w^th the originall this 23. of march 167 [seal] me John Allyn register.

"This writeing made the 1^st of May 1675. witnefseth that whereas I Nicholas Palme^r of windfor before my marriage with Joan my now wife did promife her to make over unto & pofsefse her children with her Husband purcafse his eftate when they should com of age & accordingly have formerly pofsefsed them of the Same, but not made the Same Sure unto them by any writeing now know all men by thefe prefents that I Nicholas palmer af[ores]ayd doe for my selfe my heirs executo^rs & Administrato^rs relinquish & quit Clayme vn[to them] the Houfeing & Lands within the Bownds of the Towneship of Hartford which formerly did belong to John purcafs, vnto Jarrad Speck & Richard Cafe in right of theire wiues they to haue hold ufe pofsefse & In joy the Same for euer without yeilding or paying any thing therefore vnto me the Sayd palmo^r my heirs executor^s or afsignes. In witnefs whereof I haue here vnto Set my hand

"Signed & deliuered In p^rfence of --- Nicholas N P [his mark] palmer

"This acknowledged by Nicholas palmer this 1^st of May 1675. before me John Allyn Afsift."

Children:^[5]

1. Mary m. Jared Speck,
2. Elizabeth m. Richard Case.

Sources

1. ↑ Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society (The Connecticut Historical Society and the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut, Hartford 1860-1928) Vol. 6 (1897) Hartford Town Votes, Vol. 1, 1635-1716 p. 24
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} . Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society (The Connecticut Historical Society and the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut, Hartford 1860-1928) Vol. 14 (1912) Original Distribution of The Lands in Hartford Among the Settlers 1639 [https://archive.org/details/collectionsofcon14conn/page/154/mode/2up pp 155-157
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Trumbull, J. Hammond. (transcriber). The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut Prior to the Union with New Haven Colony May 1665. (Hartford: Brown and Parsons, 1850.) AKA Colonial Records of Connecticut. Volume I. 1636-1665 Google Books pp 466, 467, 468
4. ↑ p. 607 Vol 14
5. ↑ Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692. Vol. I-IV. (Boston, MA, USA: 1860-1862)."JOHN, Hartford, a. 1639, d. prob. bef. mid. age, and his will of 15 Oct. 1645 may be read in Trumbull's Coll. Rec. I. 466. His wid. Joan m. 20 Oct. 1646, Nicholas Palmer; and his d. Mary m. Jared Speck, and d. Elizabeth m. Richard Case. Whether his hope of a s. express. in the will, were prosper. is uncert. " Savage's Genealogical Dictionary.

• Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford "John Purchas (Purkas) Hartford, 1639, one of the inhabitants to whom the land was granted “by courtesie of the town ;” his home-lot was on the west Side of the mad to the Cow Pasture, near the Pound. He probably served in the Pequot War, as he owned lard in the Soldiers Field, in 1639. He d. in Oct. 1645; will dated Oct. 15 ; inv. £30. 15. His widow, Jane, or Joan, m. (2) Oct. 29, 1646, Nicholas Palmer, of Windsor; d. Apr. 16, 1683, -Ch. : i. Mary, m. Gerard Speck, or Spicks (q. v.), before Nov. 26, 1663. ii. Elizabeth, m. before Dec. 17, 1663, Richard Case (q. v.), who calls himself of Windsor, Dec. 17, 1663, afterward of East Hartford."
• Stiles History of Windsor CT "Purchas, Joan, wid. of John, an. orig. ppr. of Htfd., m. (2) 29 Oct 1646, Nich. Palmer of W., and d. 16 Apl 1683. Of her tow daus. by Purchas. viz., Mary and Elizabeth, the latter m., before 17 Dec., 1663, Richard Case, who calls himself, on that date, "of W." Htfd. Co. Mem. Hist.
• The American Genealogist 34:69-70. "The Case Family" Link at AmericanAncestors ($)