Born about in Kent, England
[uncertain]
[uncertain]Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
Stephen Post
— married
17 Oct 1625 in Parish Langley, Hollingbourne, Kent, England
Descendants 
Died
at about age 65
in Saybrook, Middlesex, Connecticut
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| Elinor (Panton) Post migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm |
- Note: "Langley" is NOT her surname. Some genealogies give Elinor's maiden name as Langley. This was not her name, but rather is an error due to misreading parish records.
Biography
Elinor (Ellen) Panton was in England. Her birth date, location, and names of her parents have not been found. Her name was recorded at her marriage and at the burial of her son Joseph as "Ellen," and at her death as Elinor (Ellener).
The first record found for Ellen was on October 17, 1625 when she married Stephen Post at Langley, Kent, England. Stephen, baptized on June 24, 1604 at Hollingbourne, co Kent, England was the son of Abraham Post and his wife Ann Hurst. Abraham was buried in 1639 and that is the last for this surname in the church register at Hollingbourne.
Ellen and Stephen apparently moved to Otham, co. Kent by 1629 since his second child, John, was baptized there. At Otham, Ellen's husband is recorded as "Stephen Post of Otham, carpenter" when he was a bondsman on March 1, 1632 for the marriage intentions of his sister Mary Post with Allen Wenn. He was churchwarden in 1632 and is last mentioned in the church registers at the burial of their son Joseph on September 3, 1633.
Elinor, her husband Stephen and three children; Katherine, John, and Thomas, probably emigrated in the spring or summer of 1634, since he was granted in Cambridge, Massachusetts, "12 acres on the west side of the river on September 1, 1634." It has been reported that they arrived on the ship "Griffin" which carried Rev. Thomas Hooker and his congregation, but that is not accurate. The ship the Post family sailed on has not been determined. However, the Post's were followers of Rev. Hooker,[1] they sailed four months after the Griffin "due to the impending birth of a child."[1]
In 1635[2] the family moved from Cambridge to Hartford, Connecticut along with fifteen other families.[2]I would believe that this move, as a group, was beneficial for the wives and children as well as the men. Stephen was one of the first proprietors of Hartford and one of the original members of the First Church of Hartford.[3]In the Hartford land inventory of February 1639/40 the Post's held eight parcels of land.[4]By 1649 they had moved to Saybrook, Connecticut where records show that he held six parcels of land.[4]In both of these locations, her husband continued in his craft as a carpenter.
Children born to Elinor and Stephen:
- Katherine was baptized at Hollingbourne on September 15, 1627. She married (1st) Alexander Chalker (probably a widower) at Saybrook, Connecticut on September 29, 1649. Alexander was presumably a widower whose 1st wife died after giving birth to a son.[5]He died in February 1672/3 at Saybrook. Elinor married (2nd) John Hill at Saybrook on December 23, 1673. He died June 8, 1689, widower of Frances ____. Katherine died, probably at Guilford, Connecticut between January 9, 1693/4 and September 18, 1694.
- John was baptized at Otham, co, Kent on September 13, 1629. He married Hester Hyde at Saybrook, Connecticut in March 1652. Hester was the daughter of William Hyde. Hester died at Saybrook on November 13, 1703. John died at Norwich, Connecticut on February 10, 1710/1. Family of two sons and seven daughters.[3]
- Thomas Post was baptized at Otham on November 1, 1631. He married (1st) Mary Andrews in January 1656 at Norwich, possibly the daughter of Catherine (____) Andrews. She died in Norwich in March 1661. He married (2nd) to Rebecca Bruen, the daughter of Obadiah and Sarah (___) Bruen, in Norwich in September 1663. She died in Norwich on April 15, 1721. Thomas died in Norwich in March of 1661.
- Joseph was baptized at Otham on August 9, 1633 and buried there on September 3, 1633.
- Abraham Post was born about 1640, probably in Hartford, Connecticut. He married Mary Jordan, the daughter of John and Ann (Bishop) Jordan, about 1663. She died at Saybrook on March 23, 1683/4. He married (2nd) Lydia Buckland, daughter of William and Mary (Bosworth) Buckland. Lydia was born about 1637 and died by March 3, 1690/1. She had been widowed by 3 previous husbands; John Brown, William Lord, and Thomas Dunk. Abraham Post died at Saybrook between August 19, 1690 and March 3 1690/1.
Elinor died in Saybrook on November 13, 1670.[4] Her husband, Stephen Post died August 16, 1659.[4]His inventory included carpenter tools and saws, tools of his trade; as well as one great Bible and one small Bible.[4]The inventory of his estate, taken August 31, 1639 totaed L442 3s. 6d. of which L168 was real estate.[4]
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2013.) Vol. 133, p. 302
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Great Migration Newsletter, V.1-20.(Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015.) Vol. 7, p. 12
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Benton, Charles E. "Ezra Reed and Esther Edgerton, Their Life and Ancestry" Press of the A. V. Haight Co. 1912. p. 43
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Great Migration 1634-1635, M-P. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume V, M-P, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2007
- ↑ The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .) Vol. 68 p. 229
- unless otherwise noted, citations for the biography are from "The New England Historical and Genealogical Register." Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2013.) "English Ancestry of Stephen Post of Saybrook, Connecticut" by Stephen Carter.link for subscribers
- Benton, Charles E. "Ezra Reed and Esther Edgerton, Their Life and Ancestry" Press of the A. V. Haight Co. 1912. p. 43.see at archive.org
- Great Migration 1634-1635, M-P. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume V, M-P, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2007.link for subscribers
- Great Migration Newsletter, V.1-20.(Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2015.) Vol. 7, p. 12.subscription site
- Ferris, Mary Walton. "Dawes Gates Ancestral Lines" Privately Printed 1931. Vol. 2, pp. 203, 372 (footnotes), 667see at hathitrust
- The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .) Vol. 68, p. 229.subscription site
- The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2013.) Vol. 133, p. 302.subscription site.
NOTE: name spelling in this family varies,—Paton, Panton, Patoune, etc.
See Also
- "The American Genealogist." New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .) Vol. 63, p. 53.subscription site
- Shirley Amacher Robinson (Genealogist) 1002 South Brown Street, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan 48858.
- History of Norwich, Connecticut: From its possession by the Indians to the Year 1866, by Frances Manwaring Caulkins, pub. by author, 1866, pp. 194-195
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Father of Elinor was Rev. George Paynton, born 1572, Kent England, died 1605, Litchfield, Hampshire, England. Married Elizabeth Jones June 21 1603, Elizabeth born Aug 12 1575, Ludlow, Shropshire, England - died Feb 11, 1605. Marriage place Saint Andrew by the Ward City of London, London, England. Church of England Parish Registers, Reference # P69/and1/A/002/MSO4503.
I added profile of her husband Stephen from American Ancestors GM. I note that the name "Langley" is under other last names in data section. I think that should be removed (deleted) since the name is in error. Thank you. Cheryl
I find in print that "Langley" is the name of a parish in Kent, given for the marriage documentation, with her name therein as "Ellen Panton."
See the marriage document details at 147:62 in Michael Rudy, "The Colonial Post Family of Saybrook and Hebron, Connecticut: Abraham Post and his Descendants," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 146 (1992):211-230, 356-377; 147 (1993):49-63; digital images, AmericanAncestors.org (accessed 2014).
See also the additional comments on point in Steve Carter, "English Ancestry of Stephen^1 Post of Saybrook, Connecticut," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 160 (2006):33-34