Humphrey Wythe (abt. 1591 - bef. 1639)

Born about 1591 in Harkstead, Suffolk, England

Ancestors

Husband of Susan (Pakeman) Wythe — married 8 Apr 1616 in Nacton, Suffolk, England

Descendants

Died before 4 Mar 1639 before about age 48 in Ipswich, Massachusetts Bay Colony

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Humphrey Wythe migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See The Great Migration (Series 2), by R. C. Anderson, vol. 7, p. 548) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

Biography

Parentage; Date and Place of Birth

Humphrey Wythe, son of Benjamin Wythe and Emme Jannings, was born about 1590 in Harkstead, Suffolk England.^[1]

Marriage and Children

Humphrey Wythe married Susan Pakeman (bap. Nacton 8 Mar 1597), daughter of Christopher Pakeman, on 8 April 1616 in Nacton, Suffolk, England and they had the following children in Suffolk, England:^[1][2] Bolded surnames as spelled in the parish record.^[1]

1. Margaret Wythe, bp. Nacton 19 Jan 1616/7,^[3] bur. Woolverstone 9 Jun 1626;
2. Mary, b. about 1618 (d. 29 May 1706, aged 88), m. by abt 1637 Abraham Perkins; (see note below)
3. Susanna, b. say 1620; m. John Bursley of Hampton and Exeter;
4. Abigail Wyth, bp. Woolverstone 30 May 1622; m1. Thomas Jones by 1639 and m2. Thomas Chadwell aft 1666;
5. Emme Wyth, bp. Woolverstone 30 Sep 1624; bur. there 28 Sep 1625;
6. Benjamin Wyth, bp. Woolverstone 15 Dec 1626; apprecticed to Abraham Perkins for 7 years on 26 Mar 1639;
7. Emme, b. say 1628; possibly m. Richard Carle of Dover and Kittery;
8. Sarah, b. say 1630; m. David Wheeler 11 May 1650;
9. Anne Wyth, bp. Woolverstone 18 Oct 1632; m1. William Taylor by 1654; m2. George Pearson 2 Apr 1677;
10. Joseph Wyth, bp. Woolverstone 4 Sep 1634.

NOTES ON PERKINS FAMILIES: Sept. 18, 1671, Abraham and Isaac Perkins and their wives, Susanna and Mary, were among the sixty-five persons in full communion in the church at Hampton. Isaac Perkins was a rich man; was a ship carpenter and settled in what is now called Seabrook. Isaac Perkins married, about 1634, Susanna, daughter of Humphrey Wise, of Ipswich [NOTE: Anderson does not agree with this assertion], and Abraham Perkins married Mary Wise, her sister. Susanna Perkins survived her husband and died a widow in 1699 in Newcastle, Delaware, where she was living with her daughter Rebecca (Perkins) Hussey. Isaac and Susanna had two children born in Ipswich, the others were born in Hampton: Lydia, Isaac, Jacob, Rebecca, Daniel, Caleb, Benjamin, Susanna, Hannah, Mary, Ebenezer and Joseph.^[4]

Death; Estate

Humphrey died before 4 Mar 1638/9 in Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts.^[1][2] when the following record was entered into Ipswich town records:

Memorand, that whereas Samuell Greenfield now of this Towne of Ipswich, husbandman, being lawfully possessed of all the Landes formerly granted to Humphry Wyth, deceased, by marriage of Susan late wyfe of the sayd Humphry Wyth deceased, now the sayd Samuell Greenfield, together with the consent of his sayd wyfe, hath sould unto Thomas Emerson of this town of Ipswich also husbandman, all that psell of Land formerly granted to the foresayd Humphry Wyth for a farme . . . ^[5]

On March 13, 1638/9, the General Court at Boston order the Court at Ipswich "to examine & settle all things belonging to the estate of Humfrey Wiffe, & also for the land, sould & vnsould."^[6]

The Court at Ipswich made the following findings and rulings:

Humfry Wise of Ipswich, died intestate, and Samuel Greenfield late of Salem married his widow and took into his possession the lands and goods of the said Humfry, without legal order. The Court held at Ipswich 26: 1 : 1639, caused them to deliver an inventory of the estate which amounted to about 140li. Wise left a wife and five children, Benjamin, Joseph, Em. [Emma], Sarah and Ann, besides some that were married and had received their portions. Samuel Greenfield was appointed administrator. . .^[7][2]

Surname

The spelling of the family surname in English records was consistently either "Wythe," "Wyth" or "Withe." The spelling "Wise" was a variation that appears to only have been used in Humphrey's estate records in New England.^[1][2] The English surname Wythe is derived from the Middle English "wythe" meaning willow tree,^[8] and has entirely different origins from the surname Wise.^[9] There is no reason to believe that the Wythes were related to any of the Wises.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} Stott, Clifford L., "The English Ancestry of Humphrey and Susan (Pakeman) Wythe of Ipswich, Massachusetts," published in The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. [Online database of New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .] Accessed at American Ancestors.org, Vol. 68 [Oct 1993] p.216-224.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VII, T-Y. [Online database of New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012.] Accessed online at AmericanAncestors.org, profile of Humphrey Wythe, pp. 548-555.
3. ↑ "England Births and Christenings, 1538-1975," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NGF4-GVS : 11 February 2018, Margt. Wythe, 19 Jan 1616); citing , index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 496,781.
4. ↑ George Little Thomas, Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine, (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1909).
5. ↑ Schofield, George A. (ed). The Ancient Records of the Town of Ipswich, Vol. I.-From 1634 to 1650. 1899. The page with the heading "February the 15th 1638." Link to pages at archive.org.
6. ↑ Shurtleff, Nathaniel B. Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England. Vol. I. 1628-1641. Boston, 1853. p. 254.Link to page at hathitrust.org
7. ↑ The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts. Volume I 1635-1664. (Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1916). p. 11. Link to page at archive.org
8. ↑ "Last name: Wythe," sunamedb.com. Accessed 11 Sep 2019.
9. ↑ "Last name: Wise," sunamedb.com. Accessed 11 Sep 2019.

See also:

• Schofield, George. The Ancient Records of The Town of Ipswich (Chronicle Motor Press, Ipswich, Mass., 1899)

• Page 30: House lot granted to Humphrey Wyth in 1636.
• Page 53: February 15, 1638/9 Humphry Wyth deceased. Wife is Susan.

• Noyes, Sybil, Charles T. Libby and Walter G. Davis. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire. Baltimore, MD: The Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1979. [Database online] Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2007. Accessed at Ancestry.com, p.773 (Wyeth).
• Martin E. Hollick, New Englanders in the 1600s: A Guide to Genealogical Research Published Between 1980 and 2005 (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2006) p. 221. WISE, HUMPHREY, d. Ipswich, Mass., 1638. EB, pp. 597-98; Stephens, 7; TAG 68:216-24 (English ancestry of him and his wife).
• Sanborn, V.C. “The Grantees and Settlement of Hampton, NH”, in Essex Institute Historical Collections. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute Press), 53:241.
• "U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900." Yates Publishing. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2004.
• "Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s." Gale Research. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010.
• "Family Data Collection - Births." Edmund West, comp. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2001.