Henry Feake (abt. 1590 - 1657)

Born about 1590 in England

Ancestors

Husband of Jane (Wollaston) Feake — married 22 Jan 1616 in St Saviour, Southwark, Surrey, England

Descendants

Died 24 Sep 1657 at about age 67 in Newtown, Long Island, New York

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Henry Feake migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). (See Great Migration Begins, by R. C. Anderson, Vol. 1, p. 654) Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

Biography

Henry Feake immigrated to New England between 1621 and 1640 and later departed for Newtown, Long Island

Henry Feake was born about 1590; (estimated year based on the date of his marriage and the date of his parent's marriage) the son of John and Cicely (Reeve) Feake.^[1]

Henry married Jane Woolstone at St. Saviour's, Southwark, Surrey on January 22, 1615/16. She died after 1633. Their children were:

1. Chrisome child who was buried June 15, 1617 at St. Mary Woolnoth, London. A Chrisome child is an infant who dies within the first month since birth.
2. Jane who was baptized at St. Mary Woolnoth, London on June 2, 1618 and died young.
3. Edward who was baptized at St. Margaret's, Westminster, Middlesex on November 2, 1619 and was buried there on May 1, 1620.
4. Jane who was baptized at St. Margaret's, Westminster, Middlesex on May 4, 1621. No additional records.
5. Judith who was baptized at St. Margaret's, Westminster, Middlesex on July 10, 1622 and buried there March 17, 1623.
6. Stillborn child who was buried at St. Peter's Cornhill, London on October 10, 1630.
7. John who was baptized at St. Peter's Cornhill, London on November 20, 1631. He did not migrate to New England at the same time as Henry Feake but remained in England and attended the Merchant Taylors' School. He migrated later.
8. Elizabeth who was baptized at St. Peter's Cornhill, London on June 30, 1633. She married John Dillingham, the son of Edward Dillingham^{[citation needed]} at Sandwich in New England on March 24, 1650/1.

He was made a freeman of New England on 14 May 1634.^[2] Since he had a child baptized in London in June 1633, he probably arrived in New England the fall of 1633, maybe on the Griffin leaving England in July 1633. He resided in Lynn, moved to Sandwich by 1639 and to Newtown, Lond Island by 1656.

Henry Feake was one of ten men who on April 3, 1637 were granted a tract of land which later became Sandwich. He was still in Lynn in 1638, however and may have not moved from there until 1639.

Henry was on the Essex jury in 1638 and Plymouth grand jury 1642. He served as Deputy for Sandwich to the Plymouth General Court in both June and August 1643, He was on the list of men able to bear arms at Sandwich in 1643.

On April 16, 1640 he was awarded twenty acres of meadow along with an additional acre for a house after resolving a dispute over the Sandwich meadow lands. By May 20, 1640 "Henry Feake of Sandwich, gent.," granted to "my loving brother George Feake of Wightin, " Norfolk, gent., "my new house with "all the upland and meadow ground which appertains and belongs unto me excepting two acres of upland and one acre of meadow." This land was on March 1, 1670/1 sold to Robert Harper of Sandwich, "John Feake of Wighton, Norfold, gent., son and heir of George Feake, late of Wighton aforesaid, gent., deceased..." "...all those the houses, lands, tenements, meadows, pastures, uplands, hereditaments of him and said John Feake and late of George Feake his said father deceased, which did sometime belong and appertain to one Henry Feake, brother of the said George Feake."

Henry married (2nd) Joanna (_____) Wheeler, widow of (_____) Wheeler by 1657. She apparently had two children by a previous marriage and Henry had three surviving children by his first marriage to Jane Woolstone. On September 24, 1657, following the death of both parents, there was a court case between the heirs of Johanna Wheeler vs. the heirs of Henry Feake. Henry Feake's will was annulled and directed that the property of both the deceased persons be inventoried and divided equally between the above five children.

He continued his residence in Sandwich till about the year 1652, when he joined a colony from New England, and, removing to Long Island, formed the new settlement near Flushing, to whch the name of Middleburg was given - subsequently and now known as Newtown.^{[citation needed]}

Henry Feake died after the date of his will on September 24, 1657 and before it's date of judgement on April 2, 1658.

Associations

Henry was second cousin of Robert Feake of Watertown and Robert's brother James. Children of James, Judith and Tobias, came to New England at a later date.

Research Notes

Tenn Men of Saugust

Sources

1. ↑ McCracken, George E., "The Feake family of Norfolk, London and Colonial America" The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record Reference Volume 86 (1955), page 144, 209-10 $Subscription
2. ↑ Shurtleff, Nathaniel B., Records of the governor and company of the Massachusetts bay in New England, (Boston : W. White, 1853) Vol. 1:369. Archive.org

This biography is based on "The Great Migration Begins" unless other wise cited.

• The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010), (Originally Published as: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995). Sketch of Henry Feake. p. 654.subscribers$