John
Dodge
Born about in East Coker, Somerset, England
[uncertain]
[uncertain]Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Margery (Whyte) Dodge
— married
1600 in Middle Chinnock, Somerset, England
Descendants 
Died before
before about age 61
in Middle Chinnock, Somerset, England
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Biography
John Dodge, was born in England,[1] [about] 1574 of East Coker, Somerset, England. [citation needed]
John died before 15 October, 1635 (date will proved), in Middle Chinnock, Somerset, England.[2]
It is assumed that John belonged to the Church of England, as, in his Will, he asked, "To be buried in church-yard ... To the church ten shillings. The same to the poor of the parish. To the minister for preaching funeral sermon, ten shillings."
John and his wife worshipped at St. Michael Church on a hill in Middle Chinnock, England. They are most likely buried here or nearby.[citation needed]
Will
From Henry F. Waters, "Genealogical Gleanings in England" (1890),[3]
- John Dodge of Middlechinnock, 2 April 1635, proved 15 October, 1635, To be buried in church-yard there. To the church ten shillings. The same to the poor of the parish. To the minister for preaching funeral sermon, ten shillings. Wife Margery shall hold and enjoy one tenement in the parish of Halstocke, Co. Dorset, containing by estimation ten acres more or less, during her life natural if my sons Michael and William shall happen so long to live. To Wife Margery forty pounds and the bed that I now lie in and the bedstead and all things belonging thereunto. I give and bequeath unto her so much of my other household stuff as shall amount to four pounds, of such kinds as she shall think most needful and useful for her. Item I give and bequeath unto my son William forty pounds more, over and above that portion which I have already given him. To my son Richard one sheep and to take his choice in my whole flock; and to John the son of the said Richard forty shillings. To Mary my daughter twenty shillings and to her son John forty shillings. And my will is that all these goods shall be delivered half a year after my decease.
- Item. All the rest of my goods unmentioned I give and bequeath unto my son Michael whom I make and ordain the executor of this my last will and testament.
- Witnesses Geo. Parsons, clerk William Dodge, William Templeman
Family
John Dodge and his wife Margery _____ had the following children in Somersetshire, England,[4][5]
- Richard Dodge, appears in Salem in 1638, d. 15th June, 1671; probably born as early as 1602.[6]
- William Dodge ("Farmer"), came to Salem in 1629, died between 1685 and 1692. A deposition of William Dodge, made in February, 1678/9, says "aged about 70 years." Another deposition made by the same, 28th September, 1630, says, "aged about 76 years." The latter is believed to be the more correct. Hence, his birth may have been as early as 1604.[7]
- Michael Dodge, lived and died in East Coker, Somerset Co., England; was church warden in 1670 in East Coker; married Mary _____ and had children per parish register of East Coker,[8] (i) Margert Dodge, baptized 18 March, 1639/40; (ii) John Dodge, baptized 31 January 1641/2; (iii) William Dodge ("Coker"), baptized. 31 January 1643/4; m. Elizabeth Haskell in Beverly, 10 July 1665; (iv) Michael Dodge, baptized. 23 February 1646/7; (v) Richard Dodge, baptized 3? May, 1650.
- Mary Dodge, died in England; married, _____ _____; had a son John.
Research Notes
Geographical Notes. According to H. F. Waters,[9] Wrotham and Wrotham Heath, are almost side by side and just west of Maidstone in the County of Kent, England. Chinnock and Coker are neighboring parishes in the extreme South or Southeast part of Somersetshire, England. Halstock, in the County of Dorset, England, referred to in the Will, is just over the county line south of these parishes.
Son John? Some unconfirmed internet sources claim that John and Margery had a fifth child named John, who went to the America and died prior to 1635.
Other Dodge families. David Doidge reported,[10] "There are other Dodge families in East and West Coker in the 1600s. There is a reasonable probability that they are related to John 1. But no direct evidence from the registers"
Parish Registers. David Doidge reported,[11] "The dates for the registers of the 'Dodge parishes' are":
- East Coker From 1560
- West Coker From 1607
- Middle Chinnock From 1695
- West Chinnock From 1683
- East Chinnock From 1647
East Coker Records? A prior version of this profile reported, "An examination of the Parish Registry of East Coker, Somersetshire, England[12] discloses the records of the birth of 4 children William, Richard, Michael and Mary:" If the parish records of East Coker include these records, they have not been shown.
In the muster rolls in 1569, William Dodge was a billman (with a billhook, a hooked blade on a long staff), in Haselbere (Haslebury Plucknett), about a mile or two from Middle Chinnock.[13]
John Dodge was born in 1574, East Coker, Somerset, England. The son of John Dodge and Agnes Lambe. On 21 Jan 1593 he married Margery Whyte in Halstock, Dorset, England. _He passed away in 1635, in East Coker, Somerset, England.
Sources
- ↑ Joseph T. Dodge, Genealogy of the Dodge Family of Essex County, Massachusetts 1629-1894 (Madison, WI: Democrat Printing Company, 1894), 13; digital images, Hathi Trust
- ↑ Joseph T. Dodge, Genealogy of the Dodge Family of Essex County, Massachusetts 1629-1894 (Madison, WI: Democrat Printing Company, 1894), 13; digital images, Hathi Trust
- ↑ John Dodge 1635 will, citing "Sadler, 101," Henry F. Waters, "Genealogical Gleanings in England," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 44 (1890):297-98; digital images, Hathi Trust
- ↑ Joseph T. Dodge, Genealogy of the Dodge Family of Essex County, Massachusetts 1629-1894 (Madison, WI: Democrat Printing Company, 1894), 13; digital images, Hathi Trust
- ↑ John Dodge 1635 will, citing "Sadler, 101," Henry F. Waters, "Genealogical Gleanings in England," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 44 (1890):297-98; digital images, Hathi Trust
- ↑ Joseph T. Dodge, Genealogy of the Dodge Family of Essex County, Massachusetts 1629-1894 (Madison, WI: Democrat Printing Company, 1894), 13; digital images, Hathi Trust
- ↑ Joseph T. Dodge, Genealogy of the Dodge Family of Essex County, Massachusetts 1629-1894 (Madison, WI: Democrat Printing Company, 1894), 13; digital images, Hathi Trust
- ↑ Joseph T. Dodge, Genealogy of the Dodge Family of Essex County, Massachusetts 1629-1894 (Madison, WI: Democrat Printing Company, 1894), 13; digital images, Hathi Trust
- ↑ Henry F Waters, Genealogical Gleanings in England (Boston, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1901), 2 vols, 1:448, 448n, 449n; digital images, Hathi Trust.
- ↑ David Doidge, "Welcome to Somerset," 1990; web content, The Dodge Family Association.
- ↑ David Doidge, "Welcome to Somerset," 1990; web content, The Dodge Family Association.
- ↑ Registry of East Coker Parish in Somerset, England
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/somersetpub20someuoft/page/218/mode/2up?q=dodge
- See also--
- Mary Walton Ferris, Dawes-Gates Ancestral Lines .. (Privately Printed, 1943, 1931), 2 (1931):315-17 (Richard Dodge), and 2 (1931):319-28 (William Dodge); digital images, Hathi Trust.
- Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III (1995), 563-568 (William Dodge); digital images by subscription, AmericanAncestors.
- Joseph Thompson Dodge, "The Dodge Family of Essex County, Massachusetts," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 46 (1892):383-391; digital images, Hathi Trust.
- John Dodge 1635 will, Henry F. Waters, "Genealogical Gleanings in England," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 44 (1890):297-98; digital images, Hathi Trust.
- David Doidge, "Welcome to Somerset," 1990; web content, The Dodge Family Association.
- Other--
- William Richard Cutter Genealogical and Personal Memoirs.
- Manuscript, [ Hugh D. Miller, comp. ], Genealogy: Ethel P. Miller/Hugh D. Miller, 1985, copy in possession of author; Barbara M Family History compiled by Barbara M.
- Miller, Arthur, The Crucible, (New York, New York: Penguin Books USA Inc, 1964).
- Dodge family records, (view document) [Note: no document link appears]
- Lechner Family History, compiled by Michael Lechner, with my father Ted Harrold Lechner.
- Walton Family History, compiled by Mike Walton.
- Barcomb Family History compiled by Steven Barcomb.
- Mayflower Gedcom File from the Internet
Acknowledgements
See the Changes page for the details of edits by WikiTree Collaborators. Thanks for Import from Barmast10b.GED by Steven Henry Barcomb
- "England Marriages, 1538–1973", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NX31-1JT : 13 March 2020), John Dodge, 1593.
John Dodge in the England, Select Marriages, 1538-1973 Name John Dodge Gender Male Marriage Date 1593 Marriage Place Halstock, Dorset, England Spouse Margerye Whyte FHL Film Number 1279498 Reference ID 2:40779KV
John Dodge in the England & Wales Marriages, 1538-1988 Name John Dodge Gender Male Marriage Date 21 Jan 1593 Marriage Place Halstock, Dorset, England Phillimore Ecclesiastical Parish Map Spouse Margerye Whyte
UK and Ireland, Find a Grave® Index, 1300s-Current Name John Dodge Gender Male Death Date 1635 Cemetery St. Michael and All Angels Churchyard Burial or Cremation Place East Coker, South Somerset District, Somerset, England
John Dodge in the England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858 Name John Dodge Probate Date 15 Oct 1635 Death Year Abt 1635
Captain John The Founder Dodge in the Geneanet Community Trees Index Name Captain John The Founder Dodge Gender M (Male) Birth Date 2 mai 1574 (2 May 1574) Birth Place East Coker, South Somerset District (East Coker), Somerset, England, United Kingdom Death Date 15 oct. 1635 (15 Oct 1635) Death Place East Coker, South Somerset District, Somerset, England-MEMOR (Somerset), Massachusetts, USA Father John Dodge Mother Agnes Hannah Lamb Spouse Margarett Whyte Child Richard Dodge View on Geneanet https://gw.geneanet.org/julia6675?n=dodge&oc=&p=captain+john+the+founder
John Dodge in the Millennium File Name John Dodge Gender Male Birth Date 1575 Birth Place Middle Chin, Som, England Death Date 15 Oct 1635 Death Place Somerset, England Father John Dodge Mother Agnes Lambs Children William Dodge
Genealogy of the Dodge family of Essex County, Mass., 1629-1894
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The"Dodge" parishes of the Cockers and the Chinnock only cover a very small area and are essentially rural and agricultural and have few shops and no restaurants.
The roads and lanes are certainly those used by Elizabethans and earlier peoples. Oxen were still used to draw the plough, and the lanes were deeply rutted and difficult to travel except on a horse. The villages now contain about ten times as many people and houses. Most churches are virtually unchanged and were used by our ancestors every Sunday, and frequently, more often. Births were occasions for celebration, and of course, burials for sorrow; but marriages were very much lesser affairs than today, and concerned only the two celebrants. The church was the undoubted centre of village life. The major concern of the villages were land and its produce.
The break with the Church of Rome some seventy years earlier had largely been absorbed, but there were still strong feelings about religious matters stemming from the Reformation and the form of church services was still a strong subject for many. Directives of the King and Parliament were passed to the Great Lords of the Counties and in the case of South Somerset, it was usually the Phellips of Montacute. All through the first half of the 1600's, Phellips vied with another family for the leadership of Somerset. At one time, when out of favour, he was imprisoned in the Tower of London but in the end, his family prevailed. Lesser aristocrats and gentlemen of the County would be summoned to Montacute or visited with instructions on what the King requires by way of Law or edict and such local gentry were responsible for ensuring that the law was observed throughout the County. Probably the Hellyers of Coker Court were tasked with imposing the King's Laws in the local community. The features and appearance of the Hellyers ad the Phellips would be familiar to every inhabitant.
Barrington Court is an example of a medium sized manor, which is attractive and well furnished inside such as to probably give a better impression of interiors than does Montacute.
Ham Hill, a prominent landmark in the area provided a particularly attractive stone that was easily quarried for housebuilding. Not all people could afford such building materials and instead would have used other older and cheaper traditional methods such as wattle reinforced by withies from the nearby low-levels of Somerset.
We know little directly of John and Margery, but John's will reveals that he was not a poor man when he died in the parish of Halstock, just over the border in Dorset. His son, "Farmer" William went to Salem only about ten years after the Pilgrim Fathers. Since he was a Puritan, and Puritans were persecuted in England at that time, religious freedom was one of his motives for emigrating to America. He probably also saw greater economic opportunity there since each English farm grew smaller as succeeding generations divided up the land. *Sometime, somewhere, he must have spoken to someone who sparked his resolve to take the giant step towards the new territories. The main road from London to Exeter passed via Salisbury and Yeovil, just north of Ham Hill to the West. Perhaps he conversed with travelers on that road. (see note at bottom)
With both Yeovil and Crewkerne only a few miles away, and being market towns, the Dodges will probably have been familiar visitors, though many a countryman never traveled more that ten miles from their birthplace.
From early records of the Dodges in South Somerset, it appears that they were in the locality by about 1350. Other evidence suggests that there were Dodges in other parts of Somerset and the move to South Somerset may have been associated with the plague about that time.
Welcome to Somerset by David Doidge - 1990 http://www.dodgefamily.org/History/SomersetEngland_Dodges.shtml
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with John by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with John by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
- Norman Dodge
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Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 111 markers, haplogroup R-M269, FTDNA kit #12645 - Jim Reed :
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 111 markers, haplogroup R-M269, FTDNA kit #B108834
- Warren Dodge :
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 37 markers, haplogroup R-M269, FTDNA kit #891143
- Brenton Dodge :
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 37 markers, FTDNA kit #55768
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Dodge-9346 and Dodge-202 appear to represent the same person because: I believe that Dodge-9346 and Dodge-202 are the same person, as most of the sources and information match.
This John Dodge is the father of two PGM immigrants; he is the grandfather of a third immigrant (William, son of Richard).
John's profile is linked to a father, John Dodge (abt.1555-1635), whose profile is void of any references that would support this association. (Rather, his profile is filled with comments about John Dodge 1574-1635).
As no one has identified reliable sources to support that John Dodge (abt.1555-1635) is the father of John Dodge 1574-1635), are there objections to severing the father-son link?
If there are no objections, I plan to work on the narrative. Specifically, I plan to consolidate what seem multiple family entries and re-organized some of the information. I will work to address comments to the profile.--Gene
This paragraph puzzles me:
"John's grandson, Captain John Dodge (William's son, not Richard John's son, who is named Lieutenant John Dodge) married Sarah Proctor, whose brother, John Proctor gained fame in the Salem Witch Trials and through Arthur Miller's play The Crucible."
According to the information here ( https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/MWTW-MBX ), this John Dodge and Captain John Dodge are the same person, according to their birth and death dates. Something's wrong. Can someone explain this for me?
WikiTree refers to John^2 Dodge (William^1) as "Capt. John Dodge, Sr." (See John Dodge Sr. (bef.1636-1723).)
WikiTree refers to John^2 Dodge (Richard^1) as "Lt. John Dodge." (See John Dodge (bef.1631-1711).)
I removed the problem passage; it contained a confused reference to "Richard John's son."
It seems possible to me that John Dodge-202 and John Dodge-309 are either the same person or are cross-contaminated somehow. Both are described as the ancestor of the Beverly Dodges, both were born and died in the same villages. Only their wives and birthdates do not match.
Possible problem with merge. I see double entries. for Dodge-344
Double entries cleared. Mike
Pending Merges:
Dodge-344 and Dodge-344 Probably should watch for name of his father, Is there sufficiant info. Could just list him as a possible, if not.
Would you consider merging with the others first. mrl
Pending Merges:
Dodge-344 and Dodge-344 Probably should watch for name of his father, Is there sufficiant info. Could just list him as a possible, if not.
Would you consider merging with the others first. mrl
Is there a digital copy?
Would be great to attach if there is?
Manuscript, [ Hugh D. Miller, comp. ], Genealogy: Ethel P. Miller/Hugh D. Miller, 1985, copy in possession of author
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